Khushi Mehrotra

At least five are dead while the number of those trapped remains unclear. Students say the tragedy has once again exposed fears over unsafe, overcrowded accommodation. “My parents called me worried when this incident happened. I just moved to Delhi for college and this situation has scared me. I hope we are safe,” a first-year student from Shri Venkateshwara College told Newslaundry, requesting anonymity.

Another informal group named Gujarat Reads was created on WhatsApp for coordination and is now deleted. “I’m not a part of SYCA. Gujarat Reads was formed right before this incident to show solidarity with the school,” said Sneh Bhavsar, an Ahmedabad-based entrepreneur part of the group. Zalariya said the event was not centred exclusively around Malala or Anne Frank. “People from different walks of life attended this event.

“Such an environment of FIRs against journalists is wrong for them and not just them but for the country. It is harmful,” says ABP Majha journalist Mandar Gonjari. The journalist in Pune has been named in an FIR after a dispute over a single student’s scholarship grievance escalated into a campus clash between rival student groups and a legal case against him. Both the FIR and the journalist now offer opposing accounts of who pressured that student to change her story.