Letter to BS: Govt should engage with protesters, address real concerns

With students out on the streets in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the best recourse available to the government at the Centre in a democracy is to engage with them through talks. Violence has no place in a civilised society guided by liberal and democratic ethos and it needs to be condemned in the strongest terms. Any attempt to quell the protests by dubbing them as being orchestrated or politically motivated or through disproportionate use of force would do more harm than good to our standing as one of the most vibrant democracies of the world. The despicable