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Editorial   Ban is not the solution, better crowd management is  August 25, 2016 Thumb Print 0 Comments BY ANJUMAN ARA BEGUM Public protests have always been a symbol of democratic and informed societies that represent people’s engagement into affairs that affect their lives. On most part, protests speak volumes of the people’s participation in national public affairs. More over, they help enable an environment where accountability and good governance can be promoted thereby allowing rightful spaces for peoples’ grievances and dissent. For the marginalized sections of the society, protesting is the only solution that ensures State attention towards mainstreaming their issues. Yet we all know that in reality, there is a high prevalence among government and non-state actors to undermine the culture of protests and treat it as a matter of inconvenient or threat. Locally, there is an effort by certain section