More than a month after Anti-CAA protests at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi and Shaheen Bagh were called off amid the Covid19 outbreak, scores of protesters have been arrested, some of them charged with draconian UAPA. But what did the protestors stand by all this while? What were their demands? We are revisiting the Graffitis on University walls in Jamia that have all been erased by Delhi Police now.
All photos by Asma Rafat
Ab na hum per chale ga tumhara fasun,
Chara gar main tumhe kis tara se kahun?
Tum naheen charaagar, koi maane magar,
Main nahi maanta, Main nahi jaanta.’ Couplet from Habib Jalib’s poem Dastoor
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