∫connessioni precarie just published Ishita Dey’s report from the demonstrations against sexual violence that took place during the last week and still continue (tomorrow another march is organized) in Delhi. Ishita, now doctoral student at the Delhi School of Economics, speaks both as a women who participated, together with thousands people, to the protests, and as a women who made experience of her female body also through male harassment. This ordinary violence is nothing more than that political violence called patriarchy, which is not the legacy of an underdeveloped society still bounded to traditions and superstition, but a global social fact that can be enlightened moving from what is happening in «the biggest democracy of the world».
India: Capital comes to a hault over protest against gender based violence
by ISHITA DEY – Delhi
Delhi – the national capital of India is rocked by protests from student organisations, various groups and individuals pouring in India Gate – a place in close proximity to Rashtrapati Bhavan and other centres of power. People have taken to the streets to protest against the gang rape of a 23 year old student on a moving bus. There were clashes between the protesters and police. The police clamp down on such protests is not uncommon and students organisations based in Delhi organised a protest march to condemn the police crackdown on protesters and to continue the struggle against gender-based violence in Jantar Mantar. Section144 CrPC has been imposed in New Delhi which bans assembly of four or more persons in any place- barring Jantar Mantar…read more.
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