A city under siege by its own guardians: The Delhi of October 9 and 10
On October 9, as the sun gently set over central Delhi, the city fell into an unusually quiet lull. It was the day before the protests demanding the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and a rollback of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. If it weren’t so dystopian, it might have been called calm.The road leading to the protest site at Jantar Mantar had been barricaded at both ends. New surveillance cameras and loudspeakers were strapped to trees every few hundred metres. From the speakers, a woman’s voice, unhurried and polite, warned…
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