When Shradha Singh created an Instagram reel alongside two Rapid Action Force personnel in Connaught Place, she had no idea the seven-second clip would be weaponised against her.
The 23-year-old content creator and yoga instructor from Madhya Pradesh was part of the growing crowd of young people who converged on New Delhi's Jantar Mantar protest site in the third week of July to express anger against question paper leaks. Like many others, Singh had seen the Indian public examinations system up close and had grown disillusioned with it. This prompted her to turn up to support the protesting students.
Today, she cannot step outside her home.
Her ordeal is part of a chilling new reality unfolding for young protesters in the capital. Their open – and sometimes abusive – challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party has made them the targets of relentless harassment from both online mobs as well as the police.
“There is no limit to the death threats and rape threats that I’ve been receiving,” Singh told Scroll. “They’ve even found the Instagram accounts of my mother and my friends, who are being abused and badgered to share my whereabouts.”
In an Instagram reel posted on July 25, Singh drew from the soundtrack of a...
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