Before the pandemic ruled the news, India was in the midst of its largest and longest nationwide protest, in recent memory, against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens (NRC). Somewhere between the protests and the pandemic, terrible communal riots took place in Northeast Delhi, where reportedly 53 people lost their lives. And between the February riots and India’s worsening coronavirus situation ensued multiple phases of the world’s most stringent lockdown. The riot-affected people of Northeast Delhi were left doubly vulnerable.
This chronology is imperative, as several people protesting against the CAA/NRC have found themselves charged with