Not like Sri Lanka.

"With protests against the Sri Lanka government intensifying over the country's worst economic crisis, a number of protesters stormed the President's official residence and his secretariat in commercial capital Colombo on Saturday (9 July)." TIE. "Police fired shots in the air but were unable to stop the angry crowd from surrounding the presidential palace, Reuters said quoting a witness." "President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he would step down on 13 July, according to an announcement made by the parliament's speaker on Saturday." BBC. "Current Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe also said he would step down following Saturday's protests, in which his private residence was set on fire." In India, there would have been a bloodbath. Any attempts at protesting in front of a leader's residence would result in hundreds or even thousands of casualties. In 2018, 13 people were shot dead and 102 injured by the police in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu when they protested against a copper plant which, they believed, was poisoning the air and water. wikipedia. In 2021, IAS officer Ayush Sinha instructed the police to break the heads of protesters before they reached him. TIE. If not heads, home of anyone daring to protest is demolished with bulldozers, thereby punishing women, children and old people who had nothing to do with protests. TNIE. "The demolition of one's home or means of livelihood is equivalent to civil death. In my view, accountability is the long term solution," wrote former Justice Madan Lokur. HT. Indian lives are cheaper than those of Sri Lankans. What about Pakistan? "Najam Sethi - now a seasoned victim - still recalls how on May 8, 1999, 'an armed posse of the Punjab Police and the IB [Intelligence Bureau] smashed its way into my bedroom at 2.30 am, beat my wife and me, gagged me, blindfolded me, handcuffed me and dragged me away'." Dawn. So similar to us. A barrister in Pakistan wrote, "if you are relatively new to navigating the labyrinthine hallways of our justice system, allow me to explain why I feel so obligated to extend my deepest sympathies. Over the course of the coming years, your spirit shall be broken, your mind bamboozled, your patience tried and tested, your saving depleted, and, worst of all, your faith in fairness all but vanquished." Dawn. Commenting on the Kerala High Court judgement on the ban on TV channel MediaOne, Gautam Bhatia wrote, "All this is rather reminiscent of a judicial body in medieval England called the Star Chamber, which used to prosecute dissidents and critics of the King, on the basis of secret evidence and secret trials, and hand down arbitrary and unreasonable rulings." "An urgent course correction is needed if Indian courts are to avoid a similar fate." But, do they want to? People have no alternative but to protest against harmful laws. "And when protests turn violent, the tendency of governments in India - including the current dispensation - has always been to favor penal shortcuts resorting to informal, extra-judicial, violent and collective punishments such as firing on crowds, the exemplary use of bodily sanctions, detention without trial, the imposition of collective fines on the population of a 'disturbed' area, incarceration and many other stratagems aided and abetted by laws and institutions that supported them as the 'coercive network' of the State." DH. We are barbaric like Pakistan. Sri Lanka so much more civilized.