“Desh ka yuva yahaan hai, Rahul Gandhi kahaan hai?” rant the air. There were many catchy slogans, shaming politicians and expressing solidarity with the victim of last week’s gang rape on Saturday. Implausible as it sounds, anger against the rapists had turned into anger against the establishment. And this outpouring of grief and anger was done in the heart of the capital, opposite the President’s House, Parliament and the Prime Minister’s office.

But there was nobody to hear them. Parliament was not in session, government offices are closed on Saturday and the President was immune to the pleas of thousands of young boys and girls yelling at the top of their lungs, “Justice, Justice”. What they meant was “Laws, Laws”. Change the law, and hang the rapists were the demands incoherently expressed by young Indians there. Chief Minister Sheila Dixit and Lt. Governor Tejinder Khanna were travelling, and some movers and shakers of Delhi were hosting weekend and Christmas parties.