feeling so disillusioned & defeated because of everything happening in India. what& #39;s the point of studying? of trying? the economy is tanked, the political climate is dangerous for minorities & the state actively wants us disenfranchised or dead. I& #39;m finding it hard to cope.

usually I would add some caveat about my privilege or whatever when saying something like this, but the arrests made over the last 6 months were, for the most part, educated Muslim & Dalit scholars and reporters.

we& #39;ve always felt as though getting an education would be this indestructible shield, we& #39;re not upper-caste we don& #39;t have ancestral wealth or family lands, most of our security as minorities in this frequently unstable country comes from our degrees, our skills, etc etc (contd->)

-> idk I just feel so unsafe and scared, and not at all hopeful about my future. because it& #39;s not like I& #39;m going to fall in line with what the govt. wants people to. idk where this thread is going