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It was the autumn of 2019, and I had just started living the typical college life. I couldn't relate more to the song Young, Dumb, and Broke. Hailing from a small town, Mumbai was just working its charm on me. I was learning, growing, making friends, and most importantly living life. It was a Monday afternoon, and a political science lecture had suddenly stopped making sense to me as the professor started talking about the ethnic cleansing taking place in the North-East part of the country popularly known as the Citizenship Amendment Act. I turned to my friends sitting behind me and asked if they know what is the professor talking about. But all I got was a pair of shrugged shoulders. I started nodding to avoid looking stupid. I went back home to find my non-media background roommates already talking and arguing about whose side are they on. I was still lost, trying to figure what exactly are they talking about. While I was reading about the act, another notification popped up abou...