Establishment

In recent past, students’ movements in India has gathered momentum against Reservation in Educational Institutes. Tons of paper/page has already been wasted on this topic. I am not going to waste your time repeating those stuff here again. But some disturbing footage in some news channels months’ back and again in the last few hours shook me like anything.

1. Students are on their knees, facing backwards, hand in hand, to resist the forceful water canon in the streets of Capital Of India. Men in Uniform are testing their strength.
2. Men in Uniform chasing students, straight from the medical classrooms, engineering drawing boards, chemistry labs, wielding their batons.
3. Men in Uniform dragging a girl by her hair on the streets of Capital Of India.
4. A student in Kolkata showing fresh blood on the National Flag of India. It’s from his head injury, caused by Men in Uniform. He is sorry.
5. 182 students (20 girls among them) arrested and put up in Central Lockup, Kolkata. The room doesn’t have a single ceiling fan. Within a few hours one medical student falls ill.
6. Parents of the detained students, waiting outside the Central Lockup, are not crying.

I always wonder how a common civilian could ever be Pro Establishment.