Democracy under the stars and out in the sun
In a moment that mirrored Tiananmen Square’s Tank Man, who stood alone before a column of tanks in a pro-democracy protest in 1989, Rhiya Yadav (Ahir online), 27, in Mumbai, placed her hand on the nose of a police van to stop it carting young people away. She is one of lakhs of protestors across the country, who are showing up on the streets, asking for education reforms. “She had become a symbol of resistance,” says this story.
- ▪In a moment that mirrored Tiananmen Square’s Tank Man, who stood alone before a column of tanks in a pro-democracy protest in 1989, Rhiya Yadav (Ahir online), 27, in Mumbai, placed her hand on the nose of a police van to stop it carting you
- ▪She is one of lakhs of protestors across the country, who are showing up on the streets, asking for education reforms.
- ▪“She had become a symbol of resistance,” says this story.
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In a moment that mirrored Tiananmen Square’s Tank Man, who stood alone before a column of tanks in a pro-democracy protest in 1989, Rhiya Yadav (Ahir online), 27, in Mumbai, placed her hand on the nose of a police van to stop it carting young people away. She is one of lakhs of protestors across the country, who are showing up on the streets, asking for education reforms. “She had become a symbol of resistance,” says this story. “I had read about my rights. When I asked the policeman if he had a memo to detain those kids in the van, he was hesitant. That was when I knew I had to do something. It was dangerous to walk alongside the van, holding the hand of a detained girl protester. So I instinctively jumped in front of the van,” she told Vinaya Deshpande Pandit.
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