BLACK MIRROR
May 16, 2020
4 minutes
By KAUSHIK DEKA
with Sonali Acharjee
Illustration by NILANJAN DAS
IT was towards the end of March and Prashant (name changed), an arts stream student in one of Delhi’s top private schools, had just finished his Plus 2 board exams and was all set to have “some fun”. But then COVID-19 and the lockdown spoilt all his plans and confined him to his room. Worse, the ‘fun’ has gone sideways and now he fears he’ll have to spend time in a police lock-up.
Prashant was part of the now infamous Instagram group, ‘Bois Locker Room’, which came to light on May 3 when a Delhi girl shared screenshots of the sexually explicit conversations in
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