No, Neha didn’t use a guerrilla tactic; romanticising the term hurts dissent
Did the All India Students’ Association (AISA) leader Neha Bora use a doppelganger to evade Delhi police during the October 11 protests? Neha clarified that she hadn’t set out to do that at all. “It was not a strategy but a simple coincidence," she said later the same day on Instagram.
But social media and news platforms had already rushed to characterise a case of mistaken identities as a “strategy” or "battlefield tactic”. Neha was immediately showered in praise for cleverly “outsmarting” authorities.
To call a coincidence a manoeuvre of war is a dangerous misrepresentation of facts. It…
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