"Shaheen Bagh", article from The New Inquiry (4 dec 2020)

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The media and the political parties sneered: “How could these “ignorant” and “uneducated” women emerge from their “ingrained backwardness” and take to the streets in their hijabs? What did they know about laws and politics? Who was paying them?” Yet beneath the jibes and condescending bluster, one could sense their fear. Fear – because no matter how hard the media tried to spin Shaheen Bagh as a “Muslim issue,” it turned into a nationwide movement comprised of people from all religions and walks of life – Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Dalits, Jains. That people come together outside of institutionally mediated codes, that they share food, poetry, and music, that the demographic separations that undergird all technologies of government melt away, that the walls between us and the Other perish – not through the official channels of political representation, but through actual hospitality and the reception, into our lives, of the Other – all these things are intolerable to power. And ultimately, the fear that many other Shaheen Baghs would bloom.

this is interesting insight into social part of resistance... Also, see idea about political 'spirituality' in same text. while as we know how such close relations were at minimum paused due to current crisis:

Although the sit-in at Shaheen Bagh continued even after the riots, its strength dwindled, and COVID-19 would soon put an end to everything. As the phrase “social distancing” entered our political lexicon and became part of our everyday lives, after one hundred days, the women of Shaheen Bagh finally ended their indefinite sit-in and headed to their homes. In a final insult to popular memory, as if to make us forget the land of poetry that was Shaheen Bagh, the police cleared everything from the spot, making sure that nothing remained.