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Shaheen Bagh

Dissent restrained

While the court is quite right to assert that the right to dissent ~ and to protest ~ is part of the Constitutional scheme, its effort to use the doctrine of reasonable restraint to delineate the form this dissent may take raises eyebrows.

End of a protest

The 101-day sit-in was a symbol of brave resistance to what was perceived as a discriminatory citizenship Act and the fact that it was led by a bunch of Muslim women of diverse ages lent it a unique character.