Tunde interviews a woman in the crowd.It was like being part of a wave of water, she says.A wave of spray from the ocean feels powerful, but it is only there for a moment, the sun dries the puddles and the water is gone.Then you feel maybe it never happened.The only wave that changes anything is a tsunami.The history of political movements.The struggle that moved so slowly until this great change happened.He’s putting together an argument.Now they will know, shouts one woman into Tunde’s camera, that they are the ones who should not walk out of their houses alone at night.They are the ones who should be afraid.There is a brief scuffle when four men with knives appear in the crowd, but this is quickly dealt with, leaving the men with twitching arms but no permanent injuries.He has started to suspect there will be nothing new here today, nothing that hasn’t been seen before, when the word comes through the crowd that the army have formed a barricade up ahead, across Windsor Place.They are trying to protect the foreign hotels.They’re advancing slowly, armed with rubber bullets, and shoes with thick, insulating soles.They want to make a demonstration here.A show of force to let the world see how a properly trained army deals with a rabble like this.Tunde doesn’t really know any of the women in this crowd.There is no one who would shelter him in her home if the army came.And then what will happen?There are shouts from up ahead.He doesn’t speak enough of the language to understand.Tunde’s usual mild smile fades from his face.He has to get away from here, has to find high ground.Delhi is constantly under construction, most of it unsafe.A kind of wood scaffolding is fixed to the side of the building.He shoulders his way through the crowd urgently.Most of the women are still trying to move forward, shouting and waving their banners.There’s the hiss and crackle of electrical discharge somewhere further ahead.Tunde pushes forward still.He says to himself, This is not the day you die, Tunde.This is not that day.It’ll be a funny story to tell your friends back home.You’ll get good footage from a high vantage point if you can just find a way up there.
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