Art In The Time Of Protests: Jamia Students Are Now Painting Roads With Anti CAA & NRC Graffiti
Jamia Millia Islamia has become the epicentre of the protests in Delhi. Scores of students and civil society members carrying the tricolour can be seen sitting on the road outside the university. Five students observed a day-long hunger strike on Thursday and the Jamia Teachers Association JTA organised an event to take a pledge to Save the Constitution of India.
As the protests against the amended citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens continues, students from Jamia have taken to express themselves with 'road-art'.
Students joined hands to paint anti-CAA and anti-NRC graffiti on the road outside the varsity.
Jamia Millia Islamia has now become the epicentre of the protests in Delhi; scores of students and civil society members carrying the tricolour can be seen sitting on the road outside the university.
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The 'road art' carries slogans like, 'You can't impose 144, on our speech, freedom and truth'. There were other slogans like 'Jiyo aur jeene do (live and let live)', '#No CAA, #No NRC', 'Mera desh, mera samvidhan (My country, my Constitution)', along with caricatures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
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"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil"
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Five students observed a day-long hunger strike on Thursday and the Jamia Teachers' Association (JTA) organised an event to take a pledge to 'Save the Constitution of India' and held a protest.
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Sohail Hashmi, an activist and Indian heritage keeper, and MK Raina, a renowned film and theatre artist, spoke at the protest venue. The speakers stressed on the secular values of the Constitution and also mentioned the role of Jamia in educating to thousands of students with "unmatched legacy of secularism and humanity." They unanimously condemned the amended citizenship law and police action against students.
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On News Year's day, Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker and her co-star from Raanjhanaa, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, attended a public meeting on the new legislation outside the university and lauded protesters' efforts in continuing the agitation.
Reports state that apart from staging protests, students have also started a "School for Revolution" on the side of the road to teach children who cannot read or write.
Students have been staging protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the NRC outside the university along with locals of Jamia Nagar.
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