The social media call to women to come out on the streets at night to reclaim their space in protest against the rape-murder horror of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical Hospital reached far beyond Bengal as the Bengalis in Atlanta have decided to join the protest seeking justice for RG Kar incident. The protest will be near Alpharetta’s Hanuman Mandir from 6.30 ET onwards, one of the organizers informed.The protest will not be held under any banner — just a spontaneous coming together of the Bengalis in Atlanta.
They started reaching out to people from yesterday and are expecting around 100 people to attend the protest in Atlanta.
In Kolkata, the ‘reclaim the night‘ protest will begin around midnight at three spots — Jadavpur, Academy and College Street. As the first post by one Rimjhim Sinha calling went viral, social media users kept adding more and more places urging women to take to the streets. At least 45 locations across Bengal will see protests tonight. Similar protests will be held in Delhi, Mumbai and now Atlanta too.
The doctors’ fraternity in India is fuming over the gruesome rape and murder of an on-duty trainee doctor on August 9 in Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital. The semi-naked body of the doctor was found in the seminar room where she was believed to have gone to take rest. Gruesome details of assault have been revealed by the autopsy report — there was bleeding from her private parts, her eyes and mouth, injuries over the face and nail, injuries in her belly, left leg, neck, right hand, right finger and lips. Her neck bone was found broken indicating at a possible strangulation before death. Sanjoy Roy, a 33-year-old civic volunteer, has been arrested for his involvement in the rape and murder of the doctor. Doctors, however, claimed more than one person was involved in the heinous crime now being probed by the CBI.
The original Reclaim the Night movement has its roots in Europe and was inspired by the feminist movements of the 1970s born out in response to incidents of violent attacks on women.
They started reaching out to people from yesterday and are expecting around 100 people to attend the protest in Atlanta.
In Kolkata, the ‘reclaim the night‘ protest will begin around midnight at three spots — Jadavpur, Academy and College Street. As the first post by one Rimjhim Sinha calling went viral, social media users kept adding more and more places urging women to take to the streets. At least 45 locations across Bengal will see protests tonight. Similar protests will be held in Delhi, Mumbai and now Atlanta too.
The doctors’ fraternity in India is fuming over the gruesome rape and murder of an on-duty trainee doctor on August 9 in Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital. The semi-naked body of the doctor was found in the seminar room where she was believed to have gone to take rest. Gruesome details of assault have been revealed by the autopsy report — there was bleeding from her private parts, her eyes and mouth, injuries over the face and nail, injuries in her belly, left leg, neck, right hand, right finger and lips. Her neck bone was found broken indicating at a possible strangulation before death. Sanjoy Roy, a 33-year-old civic volunteer, has been arrested for his involvement in the rape and murder of the doctor. Doctors, however, claimed more than one person was involved in the heinous crime now being probed by the CBI.
The original Reclaim the Night movement has its roots in Europe and was inspired by the feminist movements of the 1970s born out in response to incidents of violent attacks on women.
Source : Times of India
