Four student-activists of the Jawaharlal Nehru University became the face of dissent in India when Delhi Police swooped down on the campus in February 2016 to arrest three of them – Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya – on charges of sedition. The fourth among them, Shehla Rashid, led protests against their arrests.

A decade later, where are the four student-dissidents?

What choices did they make?

And what choices were made for them?

In this episode of True Story, Scroll’s Executive Editor Supriya Sharma speaks to reporter Anant Gupta who spent weeks trying to find answers to these questions.