Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and NRC don't look like they will die down any time soon. People fear that the Act discriminates on the basis of religion and the CAA combined with NRC will lead to further marginalisation of Muslims.
One of the most active community of participants in the protests is that of students. After the brutal Delhi Police treatment of Jamia protesters, universities across the nation stood up in solidarity be it AMU, IIT Mumbai, IIT Delhi, DU, Guwahati University. Even Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge university protested.?
Reports of police brutality on protesters have clouded our feeds, on the other hand, there are videos and images showing protesters using peaceful, creative and artistic means of protest.?
A video of anti-CAA and NRC protesters making way for an ambulance in Pune became viral on the internet.?
And now, proving the sensitivity and sensibility of the protesters another video has come forward, this one reportedly from Bangalore.?
The video of the protest in Bengaluru shows streets jammed with people, there seems to be no space for one more person let alone a vehicle. Still thousands of people answered the call of an ambulance and managed to elegantly make way for it.?
The video shows the crowd dispersing and then melting into each other again as soon as the ambulance passes them. The ambulance slithered down smoothly through the crowd, no one tried to stop it or create a problem.?
This brings forth the true spirit of these protesters and stands as an example of peaceful and sensible protest contrary to what many people online have been claiming.?
We hope that more people realize the importance of a person's life. These protesters paused their cause to prove that ¡®every life matters¡¯ and we can all learn from them.