What's happening in India right now
I know this is not a platform where issues from the global south get any attention, but I'm still going to write about it because it's something I can do. For the past month, young people in India have been protesting the country's education system and demanding the resignation of the education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, following the leak of the country's medical school entrance exams after which 21 students committed suicide.
Today, 20 July 2026, police in Delhi and Mumbai beat protesters with batons, tear gassed them, shot them with rubber bullets and illegally detained them. Protesters included students, children, young people including young women whose clothes were torn, and people of all ages.
The Modi government has done this MANY times before. In Kashmir, in Manipur, multiple times in Delhi itself. They are banking on people getting scared and the protest losing steam. I beg you to not let that happen. I'm not a huge account, I don't have thousands of followers. The only thing I can do is speak with the voice I have.
Delhi isn't even the only place they have treated protestors this way TODAY. Police beat up adivasi protesters in Madhya Pradesh who have been trying to protect their land. This protest has gotten significantly less attention but it stems from the same vile nationalist government.
Your reblog or your like may not do anything but it's essential that we keep talking about the Modi government's continued violence against civilians. The government uses its pet media machinery and the armed forces as mercenaries for its agendas and to silence people, all while they use our money to enrich themselves and then beat us into submission. Please don't let this happen.
