Even for a place so fabled for being a political laboratory, the first Sunday of 2020 would be remembered as a plot-turning chapter for Jawaharlal Nehru University. On January 5, a campus where student politics is mostly high-minded polemic, and slogans are the harshest weapons in view, was served with a more ominous version. A Bloody Sunday it was, as over 50 “unidentified goons” entered the campus and injured over three dozen people, including students and teachers, and vandalised varsity property. The proximate cause—a long-running agitation against a massive fee hike—may seem unconnected to other things, but in the backdrop of countrywide protests, including in other campuses, the episode bled into the larger anti-CAA story frame. The same protagonists and antagonists ranged against each other, just a new inflection point.