On reporting resistance and resilience
A journalist reflects on the nature of political protest by contrasting traditional event-based reporting with Howard Caygill’s philosophy of resistance as a sustained human capacity. The article highlights the endurance and composure of protesters at Jantar Mantar, framing their actions as a transformative 'resistant subjectivity' rather than just a series of confrontations.
W hen my professor Jyoti Dalal introduced me to British Philosopher Howard Caygill’s book, On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance , little did I know that I would find myself returning to its pages after reporting on the student protests in Jantar Mantar and Sansad Marg.
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