pinjra tod
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.
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After several months of protesting by Panjab University girl students to avail 24×7 entry in their hostel rooms, the university syndicate…
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The Pinjra Tod movement had started about three years back at the Jamia Millia Islamia University against the unjust norms…
In a historic move, Aligarh Muslim University’s women students broke hostel locks to join a protest against right-wing groups who performed…
The recent case of IIT Delhi implementing a regressive rule on its female students of Himadri hostel — asking them…
In a progressive move, IIT-Roorkee has called off the rule of curfew time in their girls’ hostel. The rule came into effect on March 1. Now the rules for boys’ and girls’ hostel are at par with one another and after many years of bias, gender equality has been restored in the campus.
