"You need courage and confidence to speak out and that is what is happening at Jamia Millia University and other institutes across the nation. We salute it," said renowned social activist Medha Patkar while speaking at Techfest – an annual cultural festival of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay on Friday.

With the three-day fest kicking off, Patkar and RTI activist Shailesh Gandhi attended the event to be part of a series of talks. While the primary focus of their talk was activism, they could not ignore the issue of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) given the current socio-political situation in the country.