Patiala

[intro music] Hi, I am Niharika Nanda, and you are listening to Three Things, The Indian Express news show.

[intro music] On the 25th of September at Patiala's Chitkara University, hundreds of students gathered to protest after social media posts claimed that two female students were missing from the hostel.

And then less than 27 hours later, a similar chain of events unfolded at Lovely Professional University in Phagwara after a social media message claimed that a female student had been sexually assaulted by an outsider at the girls' hostel.

Both these protests drew large crowds, witnessed clashes between students and the police, and ended in arson and major damage to property.

Rakhi, we can see that both these incidents have a lot of similarities, especially the circulation of unverified social media posts.

But begin by talking about what happened at the Chitkara University.

At Chitkara University, this is in, uh, Patiala district.

I mean, it's 30 kilometers away from Chandigarh, and, uh, it's at the end of the Patiala district border.

Non-family.

We were in, uh, Patiala.

So I was studying in, uh, YPS Patiala actually.

And, um, Mama and my sister and I, we were there.

So we were with him in Kashmir when the incident happened, and then after that we went to Noida because my, uh, mom's parents were there.

When he didn't come, he was declared victorious.

In 1928, he, Patiala Maharaja, Patiala Riyasat was there, and his, He was a wrestler, unlike today's teams who hire wrestlers.

So such kings used to hire wrestlers.

Maharaja Patiala was a Sikh.

He made them his.

So after 1928, how many years? After 18 years, Zabisco's letter came to Maharaja Patiala.

If Gama has the courage, then fight with me.

I will come to India and defeat him.

that would be weird to think about they don't seem well in terms

of in terms of how you know they both do the we kind of a thing that's true that's true like shashi's we is the i drink champagne we and dharampaji Dharm Paji's we is the I drink, I drink Patiala peg we, but it's still we.

Amitabh has never been we, nor will he ever be.

Except for in, oh, I'm blanking on the name of the movie with a, you know,

Oh, after these heavy meals, we need to sleep.

See, on your way back, if you go to one of these dhabas and you have chole bhature and that Patiala glass of creamy lassi.

[inhales] Really, after that, all you want to do is lie down.

[sighs] Mm-hmm.