Beyond the slogans and the swelling crowd, the volunteers who keep Jantar Mantar running | Delhi News
Harsh never imagined he would spend his days walking up to strangers, offering them Kota Kachoris. A 21-year old student of Delhi University’s School of Open Learning, Harsh is an introvert. He has had a fixed set of friends for a long time and usually does not talk to new people. Whenever he does, he has to think twice before starting a conversation. But Cockroach Janta Party’s ‘Sansad Chalo’ march quietly transformed him. It began on Monday, when he noticed a protester’s train ticket and asked where he had travelled from. Later in the day, while running from a police lathicharge during CJP’s ‘Sansad Chalo’ march, he found himself talking to another stranger. On Wednesday, he returned to Jantar Mantar, walked up to a volunteer and simply asked, “How can I help?” Within minutes, he was moving through the swelling crowd with a bag of Kota Kachoris brought by protesters from Rajasthan, offering them to anyone who looked hungry. “Now, I go up to so many people to ask them if they want kachoris that …
