NEW DELHI ¨C As a crowd of protesters swelled around them under the watchful eyes of dozens of policemen in riot gear, a cluster of young female students in burqas stood outside their university in New Delhi shouting anti-government slogans.
¡°What is happening in the country is wrong,¡± Shabana, a 21-year-old student at Jamia Millia Islamia University, said through the veil covering her face. Jamia Millia is a major public university in the capital where a large number of Muslims study. ¡°They can¡¯t suppress our voices.¡±
As protests in India against a new citizenship law that critics say targets Muslims grow by the day, they have drawn many women and girls ¡ª some housewives, some students with hijabs covering their hair, and others in full-length burqa robes ¡ª in a rare sign of public anger against the government.
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