On July 20, Navkiran Natt and her partner set out for the magistrate's office in New Delhi to get married. They arrived to find a tense situation, with police gathering to break up a youth-led march on Parliament. Office staff — and the couple's wedding witnesses — were running late due to barricades.
The protest movement known as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) had announced the march to demand the resignation of India's then-Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The protesters were met with heavy resistance from security forces, who had deployed batons, tear gas and pellet-firing shotguns, leading to injuries and mass detentions.
Less than three months later, on October 10, Natt left home early in the morning and spent the day crisscrossing the locked-down Indian capital looking for a protest she could join.
