The Shaheen Bagh movement was born in the eponymous working-class neighbourhood, on a frigid Delhi winter night in 2019, when a small group of Muslim women came out of their homes and sat down in protest. They had occupied a stretch of road on one of the busiest highways in the capital. Mostly housewives, the women who had never been involved in a political movement before were protesting a ferocious police crackdown against the students of Jamia, one of India’s premier universities. This spontaneous yet radical act of solidarity went on to become an iconic site of democratic dissent that fuelled over a 120 countrywide sit-in protests. The Shaheen Bagh protest site that swelled at points to millions, with people joining from all across the country, continued over the next hundred days. Earlier that summer, the ruling party had regained power with a thumping majority. No stranger to the politics of hate, they interpreted its sweeping electoral mandate to swiftly pass a suite of laws targeting India’s constitutional commitment to secularism. Among them was the Citizenship Amendment Act. Together with the National Register of Citizens it threatened to strip over two hundred million of India’s Muslims of their status as legal citizens. Protests erupted across country. Shaheen Bagh, the epicentre of this movement was splashed across newspapers and broadcast on television night after night. On 23rd of March, 2020 when the pandemic sent India into lockdown, the state used this as an opportunity to destroy the protest site. All traces of it were erased and painted over.