This protest is entering its second day.

These protests have been going on for months in one form or another, actually. The regime is getting increasingly heavy-handed in how they deal with opposition in an attempt to convince the world that everything is fine.

They do. The Indian diaspora (especially the boomers and older millennials) are shockingly rabid in their support for Modi and Hindutva nationalism

Including an actual 15-year old who up until yesterday had the entire state apparatus baying for her blood. They lied that she was 25 so they could go after her and arrest her; it only came out that she’s a minor when the police did a background check