Protests and candlelight vigils have spread across Tripura after a 24-year-old man from the northeast Indian state died from injuries sustained in a violent attack, intensifying a national debate over racism, policing, and student safety.
Anjel Chakma, a final-year management student at a private university in Uttarakhand’s capital of Dehradun in northern India, was assaulted on 9 December and died in hospital on 26 December after 17 days of treatment.