The anti-CAA/NRC protests were for Constitutional rights.

They were not the creation of any political party, and were often at loggerheads with many of them.

They focussed on the rediscovery of the promises of the freedom struggle, which is why so many were moved by them.

The country, and its politics, are not owned by any political party - no matter what they might think of themselves.

The legacy of those protests leaves them all somewhat unsure, because they were reminded that power comes from the people, and they can't fully control them.

The harassment that has followed, the targeted persecution, the ridiculous cases, are all geared to divide activists and the public, to reduce citizens back into being subjects, to become tokens to be traded and bartered among the politicians that think they are our lords.

You can kill people, you can imprison hundreds, but the dream of freedom does not die so easily, nor does the desire for true democracy, of a government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Hum dekhenge.