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“Time and again the government [of the day] has opposed these protests, [and] at times engaged with them critically,” Rasheed Kidwai, a political analyst in New Delhi, told Al Jazeera. “But protests have run centrally through India’s story all along.” Kidwai highlights a key concept that shapes the connotations of protests: centrality. Protest is a mass congregation of people demanding change from a larger governing body, from which dissent stems. Geographically also nucleate

Anti-CEC protesters from the Disha Students' Organisation and Revolutionary Workers Party of India (RWPI) were headed to reclaim Jantar Mantar on the morning of 13 October near Janpath and Connaught Place after it was denotified as a designated protest site on the evening of 12 October.

Saturday, 10th October marked Mahalaya— the day that heralds the approach of Durga Pujo, Bengal’s great autumn festival commemorating the invocation of Goddess Durga before her victory over the demon Mahishasura. I watched Delhi turn itself into a hunting ground for protestors. I left campus to stand in solidarity with those demanding the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation. The protests were called after irregularities, voter disenfranchisement, and more

On Saturday, 10th October, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) called for a protest demanding the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner, Mr. Gyanesh Kumar, over alleged irregularities in the electoral roll. In Delhi, thousands took to the streets and were met with excessive police force. Journalists, protesters and bystanders alike were pushed into police vehicles and taken to detention centres. With the deployment of an estimated 23,000 Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) of

At 2:00 pm on Saturday, July 25th, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced via a post on X (formerly Twitter) that he had tendered his resignation.

The Editorial Board of The Edict unequivocally condemns the horrific acts of violence directed at students and peaceful protesters on the 20th of July 2026 at Jantar Mantar and surrounding areas in New Delhi. These include the use of police force, multiple accounts of assault, arbitrary detention, intimidation, and the deployment of violence, whether by the state or by those who act with its protection to suppress democratic participation. The willingness of any government t