So yesterday the protest outside Ramjas college got violent. And I say this from personal experience because I got beat up too. And yes, my assaulter was a woman who happened to be on the ABVP side of the police cordon. And I was standing where a lot of fellow journalists were, but I just happened to be the one directly within grab n’ pummel reach. My colleagues, Anant and Shiv, got thrashed as well. By the cops.

But as is the nature of the Internet, nobody cares if I got beat up.

Because you see, I wasn’t bleeding and my face wasn’t obviously disfigured.