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From funds to Biryani, here's what it takes to organise an anti-CAA protest

From the maze-like neighbourhood a volunteer group of more than 100 people run the site, working in shifts and providing everything from crowd-control and food to bedding and medicines

Citizenship Act protests
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Devjyot Ghoshal | Reuters New Delhi
In a working-class corner of south Delhi, a nearly 1-kilometre (half mile) stretch of a wide, six-lane highway connecting India's capital city with a burgeoning suburb has been blockaded for 10 days.

Hundreds of men and women, some in Muslim burqa robes and many accompanied by children, have occupied the stretch of road at Shaheen Bagh to protest against a new citizenship law and a proposed citizens' register that has brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets across India.

India has been rocked by demonstrations since Dec. 12, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)