sunburnt, half-broken

LEARN TO SAVOUR THE BITTER AS WELL AS THE SWEET

A GOOD WAY OF CURBING SADNESS IS TO DO SOMETHING IN SERVICE OF ANOTHER

YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO THE FOLLIES OF MANKIND

SOME SEEDS TAKE MANY SEASONS TO SPROUT, AND NO SEASON STAYS FOREVER

GIVE YOUR FULL ATTENTION TO YOUR CUP OF TEA

YOUR HEART IS NOT THE FLESH AND BLOOD BUT THE EMPTINESSES BETWEEN

You'll find an unending stream of students who fancy themselves nihilists, nietzscheans, marxists, hegelians, aristotelians, romanticists, empiricists, rationalists, absurdists, classical liberals, jacobins, disciples of spinoza, or enlightened intellectuals who don't burden themselves with labels and exist above and below politics. They all pay their tuition diligently, they all end up with a "useful" ballot in hand, they all avoid dirtying their perfectionist intellectual unoriginality with compromise to their beliefs. They find themselves infinitely more preoccupied with debating what "production" a student "strike" is able to halt, through an intellectual effort which inverts their compass and they travel towards the equator looking for the pole. Only the few who involve themselves in the organization of these strikes have found the necessity of those strikes to be intimately linked with a university worker's strike. Nevertheless, nobody is consequent about this discovery.

• they've started detaining students liberally. if you're going to the protest or coming from it they're very likely to detain you (the police has spread it check points all across central delhi). you'll be denied entry by auto or even walk, they'll either try to scare you away or detain you. if you're coming from other state especially by railway you'll be asked what are you here for & be asked to prove it.

• the government has blocked 18 metro stations surrounding jantar mantar. for some reason they're also covering up janpath & other nearby metro stations. all entrances to jantar mantar have been closed off & a complete internet shutdown near jantar mantar.

• they are denying lawyers contact with their clients. they've also been denied entry in police station to speak to their clients, that inspector has apologized as of now & an internal investigation for his behaviour is said to have started.

• they're also making sure that the protesters have no access to food, water or electricity. last night electricity supply to janpath was cut off ++ the police are now stopping delivery men at check points & seizing food ordered by supporters from all across the country. they're also threatening restaurant owners against delivering food to the protest site.

• cafes & shops in connaught place have been given a legal notice to shut down by 6 (since many of them were providing free water & washroom services to protesters). even nearby hotels have denied room booking to doctors.

• many creators have been offered money to speak against the protest & start a hate campaign.

• we are under complete state surveillance. the police is using meta ai glasses to record the protesters, and is later running a facial recognition check on them.