If the Sadhvi indeed struggled with critical health complications while in jail, how can those moved by her plight approve of other women enduring similar fate?
The arrested students are founding members of Pinjra Tod, a collective group of women activists in the Delhi.
“We will continue with our act of civil disobedience. When they will ask us to show our documents, we will not. When they question our citizenship, we will not answer,” says Sadaf Jafar.
The history of student protests in India are as old as the pre-independence era. The first student protest in undivided India took place in 1920 in King Edward Medical College, Lahore, against academic discrimination between Indian and English pupils.
Regional Institute of Education, Bhopal has witnessed several protests by the women students demanding removal of curfew timings, fair and equal treatment of both female and male students and acknowledgment of their autonomy and mobility. All this led the Pinjra Tod members of the college to write a letter to the Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman […]
The hostel administration of Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Bhopal has allegedly illegally expelled a student of B.Ed first year on account of her suffering from moderate depressive disorder recently. The student had applied for a week of medical leave from the hostel after she consulted an AIIMS doctor for her illness. The AIIMS doctor […]
After several months of protesting by Panjab University girl students to avail 24×7 entry in their hostel rooms, the university syndicate finally allowed girls at the Swami Sarvanand Giri Regional Centre, Hoshiarpur, 24 hours campus access on Saturday. This development in rules by the administration means that girls will now be allowed to come back to […]
Several decades have passed, but the infamous Virgin tree puja of Hindu College continues to propagate ideas of sexism, Brahminical patriarchy and objectification of women in the campus every Valentine’s Day. In the last few years, women students have started raising their voice against the puja that sees women as objects and promotes the idea […]
The Pinjra Tod movement had started about three years back at the Jamia Millia Islamia University against the unjust norms to confine women. What makes Pinjra Tod different is that unlike other feminist movements, it includes fight against gender-based discrimination along with caste and class discrimination. Bringing a broader perspective and context to issues it […]
In a historic move, Aligarh Muslim University’s women students broke hostel locks to join a protest against right-wing groups who performed armed attacks in the university campus. An attack by 20-25 goons, allegedly from right-wing group Hindu Yuva Vahini, took place in the university on Wednesday, when the former Vice President Hamid Ansari had come to […]
