‘Hope Jantar Mantar students don’t spend 2 years rebuilding like I did’: Shambhu pellet survivor

5 min readChandigarhJul 30, 2026 10:32 PM IST Davinder lost his left eye after being hit by a pellet during the farmers’ protest at the Shambhu border on February 13, 2024. (Special Arrangement)When images of students injured by pellet guns during the recent protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar flashed across television screens and social media, 24-year-old Davinder Singh Bhangu Shekhupuria did not have to imagine what they were about to endure. He has been living that reality for more than two years.Davinder lost his left eye after being hit by a pellet during the farmers’ protest at the Shambhu border on February 13, 2024. The injury ended his studies, altered his future and, he says, left emotional scars that remain far deeper than the physical wound. “I hope these students don’t have to sp