The Rosa Parks moment was when Shaheen Iqra sat on the road flanking Shaheen Bagh which connects Kalindi Kunj in southeast Delhi and Noida blocking the busy traffic on December 15, 2019. Earlier that day police had forcefully entered the Jamia Millia Islamia University nearby and brutalised students in retaliation for a massive protest they undertook against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. As the cold dusk crept in early, Iqra exhorted others with a handheld microphone to join the sit-in. In the peak of Delhi winter, the coldest in over a