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A sit-in protest at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, where women have been leading the protest since December 15. Photo: Somesh Jha

Somesh Jha
Students running to safety in a fog of tear gas, police swinging lathis on them, and young men being hustled away into police vans and taken into custody.
 
These images of hapless students from Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University have now become synonymous with the anti-citizenship law protests that began with the police bursting into the library of the university on December 15.
 
Days later, when violence broke out in the National Capital’s Daryaganj area as protesters clashed with the police, and dozens of students, including minors, were detained and injured, the word spread quickly.
 
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