The outpouring of solidarity and generosity on the JNU campus, since the attack of 5th January 2020 has been overwhelming.
Hostels have organised guerilla dhabas at Sabarmati. They have sung revolutionary songs while making pans of maggi and distributing jhal muri and peanuts.
Men from the hostel that distributed peanuts, worried about the mess of the peanut shells at our hostel entrance, even offered to sweep up the place, brooms at the ready.
Three women in the women’s wing in Sabarmati threw all the women in the hostel a party two nights ago.
During and after the events of the 5th, neighbours have become friends.
Our teachers have been coming to meet us every day. Some have brought bags full of snacks. Some have organised trauma sessions for us. Some have just held us.
And tonight Brahmaputra hostel organised a Sadbhavna mela for the campus. Free snack stalls all around, dholak music to dance to and a large Lohri bonfire.
As some of us women from Sabarmati were walking back towards Ganga dhaba tonight, discussing how this is the first time our hostel has no Lohri celebrations, the men from Kaveri stopped us to offer popcorn from their Lohri celebrations.
JNU was home, is home, and will remain home.
KAFILA - COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006 