Government Is Making Every Place A Jantar Mantar

The decision to de-notify Jantar Mantar as a designated protest site is ill-advised and betrays a disturbing lack of faith in democracy. When the police refused protesters permission to assemble there on October 10, they gathered wherever they could. Every available space became a makeshift Jantar Mantar. As a wag remarked, the whole country had become one giant Jantar Mantar....