From housewives to students, women take centre stage in anti-CAA protests

The women can be seen painting graffiti on university walls, organising rallies and gathering funds for posters and food for protesters

As a crowd of protesters swelled around them under the watchful eyes of dozens of policemen in riot gear, a cluster of young female students in burqas stood outside their university in New Delhi shouting anti-government slogans.

"What is happening in the country is wrong," Shabana, a 21-year-old student at Jamia Millia Islamia University, said through the veil covering her face. Jamia Millia is a major public university in the capital where a large number of Muslims study. "They can't suppress our voices." As protests in India against a new citizenship law that critics say targets Muslims grow by the day,