
As for the style of politics, people today rally behind student leaders who are aggressively taking on the right-wing. People relate to those who they feel reflect their anger in language and semantics. But women, disabled, and queer people may find themselves out of place with this aggressive, masculine style of politics. While the right-wing student groups employ tropes derived from names of Hindu goddesses (Bharat Mata, Maa Durga ka apmaan, Maa Bhawani) and have the discursive capacity to project menstruating women, the disabled (Divyang), and transgendered – all as objects of worship, the left does not have equivalent devices. How do we then queer politics in general, and student politics in particular? How do we then rally women for a discourse that is genuinely emancipatory but whose style may put them off?
