#new delhi protests

[adreameratdawn]

my govt opened up a new parliament to prove nothing while physically breaking up clouts of national pro wrestlers who are rallying against sexual abuse within the Indian sports world makes me sick as FUCK

[thenewspr]

Canadian Sikh group urges followers to protest outside Indian embassies - SUCH TV

A Canadian Sikh group has called on its members to protest outside the Indian diplomatic missions of main Canadian cities on Monday, a week after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised the prospect of New Delhi’s involvement in the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia. Trudeau said last week Canada was pursuing “credible allegations” that Indian government agents may be linked to…

[nidarchhattisgarh]

Wrestlers Protest : पहलवानों के धरना प्रदर्शन को लेकर बड़ी खबर 21 मई के बाद ले सकते हैं बड़ा फैसला....पढ़ें पूरी खबर

Wrestlers Protest : पहलवानों के धरना प्रदर्शन को लेकर बड़ी खबर 21 मई के बाद ले सकते हैं बड़ा फैसला….पढ़ें पूरी खबर दिल्ली। WFI के पूर्व प्रमुख बृजभूषण के खिलाफ पहलवानों का धरना प्रदर्शन लगातार जारी है, पहलवानों ने बृजभूषण को गिरफ्तार कर सरकार को उनके खिलाफ कार्रवाई करने के लिए 21 मई तक का समय दिया है। भारतीय कुश्ती महासंघ के प्रमुख रहे बृजभूषण शरण सिंह के खिलाफ यौन उत्पीड़न के आरोपों को लेकर देश…

[trendynewsnow]

Family Connections and Political Struggles: The Case of Umar Khalid

Family Connections Amidst Struggles The family gathers around their laptop in New Delhi once a week, creating a virtual bridge across distances. Sometimes, relatives join the call from northern India or even the United States. They eagerly wait for Umar Khalid, a 37-year-old Indian political activist, to appear on the screen from his prison cell. “How are you, Ammi?” Mr. Khalid boomed during a…

[votermood]

Sonam Wangchuk’s Fast: Activist warming up the political climate of Delhi

[rightnewshindi]

कोलकाता डॉक्टर रेप एंड मर्डर केस में बंगाल से दिल्ली तक होगा विरोध प्रदर्शन, डॉक्टरों ने किया हड़ताल का आह्वान

India News: कोलकाता में आरजी कर मेडिकल कॉलेज एंड हॉस्पिटल के सेमिनार हॉल से पिछले सप्ताह शुक्रवार की सुबह जूनियर डॉक्टर का शवबरामद किया गया था. सात दिनों के भीतर घटना ने नया मोड़ ले लिया है. मेडिकल कॉलेज ��े प्रिंसिपल को हटा��ा जा चुका है. न्याय की मांग पर महिलाएं सड़क पर उतरीं. कलकत्ता हाई कोर्ट ने रेप कांड की सीबीआई जांच के आदेश दिए हैं. इस बीच बुधवार रात जिस तरह से आरजी कर मेडिकल कॉलेज पर हमला…

[worldinyourpalm]

विरोध के बीच राजस्थान स्वास्थ्य का अधिकार विधेयक पारित करने वाला पहला राज्य बना | Rajsthan passes the first Right to Health Bill amidst demonstrations;

Source: th-i.thgim.com

अपेक्षित शुल्क या शुल्क के पूर्व भुगतान के बिना

निजी अस्पतालों और नर्सिंग होम के डॉक्टर और पैरामेडिकल स्टाफ इस विधेयक के खिलाफ यह कहते हुए आंदोलन कर रहे हैं कि इसके 'कठोर प्रावधान' निजी स्वास्थ्य क्षेत्र का गला घोंट देंगे।

आंदोलनकारी निजी डॉक्टरों के कड़े विरोध के बीच, राजस्थान विधानसभा ने मंगलवार को सरकारी अस्पतालों और निजी तौर पर संचालित संस्थानों दोनों में राज्य के प्रत्येक निवासी के लिए अनिवार्य मुफ्त आपातकालीन उपचार के प्रावधान के साथ स्वास्थ्य का अधिकार विधेयक पारित किया। इसके साथ ही राजस्थान स्वास्थ्य के अधिकार का कानून बनाने वाला देश का पहला और एकमात्र राज्य बन गया है।

विधेयक, जिसे पिछले साल 22 सितंबर को विधानसभा में पेश किया गया था और बाद में एक प्रवर समिति को भेजा गया था, सदन में ध्वनि मत से पारित किया गया था। विधेयक राज्य के प्रत्येक निवासी को किसी भी सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य संस्थान, स्वास्थ्य देखभाल प्रतिष्ठान और नामित स्वास्थ्य देखभाल केंद्रों द्वारा "अपेक्षित शुल्क या शुल्क के पूर्व भुगतान के बिना" आपातकालीन उपचार देखभाल का अधिकार देता है।

आंदोलनकारी डॉक्टरों ने कहा

चिकित्सा एवं स्वास्थ्य मंत्री पर��ादी लाल मीणा ने विधेयक पर दो घंटे तक चली बहस के दौरान कहा कि जनता के हितों की रक्षा के लिए उठाया गया यह बड़ा कल्याणकारी कदम है। श्री मीणा ने कहा कि अगर कोई मरीज आपातकालीन देखभाल, स्थिरीकरण और रेफरल के बाद अपेक्षित शुल्क का भुगतान करने में असमर्थ रहता है तो राज्य सरकार स्वास्थ्य देखभाल प्रदाता को खर्च की प्रतिपूर्ति करेगी।

निजी अस्पतालों और नर्सिंग होम के डॉक्टर और पैरामेडिकल स्टाफ इस विधेयक का विरोध कर रहे हैं, उनका कहना है कि इसके "कठोर प्रावधान" निजी स्वास्थ्य क्षेत्र का गला घोंट देंगे।

आंदोलनकारी डॉक्टरों ने कहा कि उनके द्वारा प्रवर समिति को सुझाए गए संशोधनों को लागू नहीं किया गया था और विधेयक ने आपातकाल को परिभाषित किए बिना मुफ्त उपचार प्रदान करना अनिवार्य कर दिया था......

[girlinafairytale]

protests erupt in various parts of India demanding the government to stop arming israel while expressing support for the Palestinians. the above photos are from Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.

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[nivea-ah]

I am so horribly disappointed by the Paris Olympics, I can't even frame a sentence without having to take a pause to just scream in fury.

Vinesh Phogat from India was the first wrestler ever, man or woman, to reach the finals and have the opportunity to play the Indian National Anthem at the Olympics. She usually always played in the under 53kg category but due to some issues, she went with under 50kg.

She then went on to ANNIHILATE all competition by winning so wonderfully, it made all Indians proud. She won the semifinals, progressed to finals and even had an opportunity to win it. However, at night, she realised she'd gained roughly 3kg and wouldn't be able to participate with that weight. She ran on a treadmill with thick jackets on, sat in a hot sauna, didn't eat or drink anything and, in desperation, cut her hair off. After all this effort, her reading was 50.1kg and she was eliminated from the Olympics.

The weight of 100g pushed her back to the last position, not even letting her get her well-deserved silver medal. Due to severe dehydration, she fainted on the venue and was later admitted in a hospital. Just today, she announced her retirement.

In spite of not winning the gold medal, she is a champion, not only because of her other accomplishments, but because of her relentless support and participation in the wrestlers' protest against the then chief of Wrestling Federation of India for sexual harrasment. She spent months on the streets of New Delhi to get the government to do something and nearly threw all her medals in the River Ganga to get the authorities to act. She was a champion through and through. Gold medallist or not, she truly is gold.

[reasonsforhope]

"Winning what’s been called the ‘Green Nobel’ an Indian environmental activist has been recognized for saving a 657 square-mile forest from 21 coal mines.

From the New Delhi train station to high-end hotels to the poorest communities, virtually no one in India is free from periodic blackouts. As part of the Modi regime’s push for a developed and economically dominant India, power generation of every sort is being installed in huge quantities.

GNN has reported this drive has included some of the world’s largest solar energy projects, but it also involves coal. India is one of the largest consumers of coal for electricity generation, and Hasdeo Aranya forests, known as the “Lungs of Chhattisgarh,” are known to harbor large deposits.

The state government had been investigating 21 proposed coal mining blocks across 445,000 acres of biodiverse forests that provide crucial natural resources to the area’s 15,000 indigenous Adivasi people.

Along with the Adivasi, tigers, elephants, sloth bears, leopards, and wolves, along with dozens of endemic bird and reptile species call this forest home. It’s one of India’s largest intact arboreal habitats, but 5.6 billion metric tons of mineable coal threatened to destroy it all.

Enter Alok Shukla, founder of the Save Hasdeo Aranya Resistance Committee, which began a decade ago advocating for the protection of Hasdeo through a variety of media and protest campaigns, including sit-ins, tree-hugging campaigns, advocating for couples to write #savehasdeo on their wedding invitations, and publishing a variety of other social media content.

Shukla also took his message directly to the legislature, reminding them through news media coverage of their obligations to India’s constitution which enshrines protection for tribal people and the environments they require to continue their traditional livelihoods.

Beginning with a proposal to create a single protected area called Lemru elephant reserve within Hasdeo that would protect elephant migration corridors and cancel three of the 21 mining proposals, Shukla and the Adivasi began a 160-mile protest march down a national highway towards the Chhattisgarh state capital of Raipur.

They hadn’t even crossed the halfway mark when news reached them that not only was the elephant reserve idea unanimously agreed upon, but every existing coal mining proposal had been rejected by the state legislature, and all existing licenses would be canceled.

“We had no expectations, but the legislative assembly voted unanimously that all of the coal mines of Hasdeo should be canceled, and the forest should be saved,” Shukla says in recollection to the Goldman Prize media channel.

“That was a very important moment and happy moment for all of us.”

Shukla shares the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize with 5 other winners, from Brazil, the US, South Africa, Australia, and Spain."

-via Good News Network, May 20, 2024. Video via Goldman Environmental Prize, April 29, 2024.

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Komuram Bheemudo: "Make that bastard kneel now!" Part 2/?

Hey! Hey! Hey! Remember how the whole point of the public flogging was to make Bheem kneel?

Who am I kidding? We are reminded of it constantly throughout the flogging

Ram's failed attempt #1

Ram's failed attempt #2

This bitchiest bitch to ever bitch

Ram's failed attempt #3

This asshole dickfuck vomitted straight out of hell

Ram's failed attempt #4

And in the end, Bheem has his way. He falls, but he does not kneel. They break him, but they cannot be bend him. They can command him, threaten him, brutalize him, but they cannot subdue him. He is the tiger, he cannot be tamed.

But!

BUT!

BUT!

You know what detail makes me go absolutely feral is interesting?

Bheem is not the one who kneels after the flogging.

RAM DOES!

RAM IS THE ONE WHO IS BROUGHT TO HIS KNEES AT THE END OF THE FLOGGING!!!

And I don't even mean this in a metaphorical sense (though that one is true as well)

Ram. Is. Physically. Kneeling. Beside. Bheem. I cannot stress this enough.

This is a KEY moment in the movie. It's a turning point.

We know that seeing the unarmed civilians rising up against the armed British forces in the wake of Bheem's defiance is what spurs Ram to finally, FINALLY arrive at his epiphany. His idea of what a revolution is and how it can be achieved is too narrow, too rigid, too costly. The sacrifices are too many and at what point will the ends justify the means?

But to change his viewpoint (again both literally and metaphorically), RAM HAS TO BEND FIRST! Once Ram bends, only then can he finally SEE!

And what is it that makes Ram bend? It's his LOVE FOR BHEEM! His love for Bheem changes him.

So these, that is, the shots where Ram is SEEING a revolution, an actual revolution in action, sparked by nothing more than Bheem's song and his indomitable spirit....

....come AFTER these shots. Where Ram is compelled by his love for Bheem to bend down and kneel

Compare this with Ram's introduction scene.

There is a revolution going on. People show up in front of a police station on the outskirts of Delhi to protest the arrest of Lala Lajpat Rai, a prominent Indian political figure, in Kolkata, armed with nothing more than torches, flags, and their righteous anger.

Ram watches the revolution. But he does not SEE it. He is so focused on his distant goal that he is blind to what is right in front of him. What is literally staring at him in the eye.

So, what does Ram do with his myopic worldview? He quashes the revolution. He stamps out the very thing he is fighting for. He breaks the spirit of the revolution, the spirit of the people, and he watches stone-faced as the protesters limp away, defeated. All because he cannot SEE the revolution for what it is.

So, with these two scenes in mind, we understand that this is not the first time Ram has witnessed a revolution. The people's uprising in the wake of Bheem's torture is nothing new to him. He has watched it all before, has actively participated in snuffing it out even.

Here, Ram STANDS tall, straight, rigid, focused, unbending.

Here, Ram is ON HIS KNEES.

The only factor that changes between these two scenes is the presence of Bheem..... and Ram's love for him. It's Ram's love for Bheem that bends his inflexible worldview. It's Ram's love for Bheem that makes him take a step back and actually see the true meaning of revolution. It's Ram's love for Bheem that shifts his perspective. It's Ram's love for Bheem that makes Ram willingly give up a 15 year long mission he has been toiling endlessly for.

Love is THE MOST powerful force in RRR. No amount of pain, grief, anger, heartbreak, trauma, brutality or violence can wipe it out. It is love that shines and love that emerges victorious. And after the flogging, Ram's love for Bheem is the most powerful driving force in his life, more powerful than a lifelong mission, more powerful than a promise made among tears and blood.

The visual storytelling and symbolisms in this movie are insane. I am going to scream about them for the next 80 years.

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[votermood]

लद्दाख क्षेत्रफल की दृष्टि से भारत का सबसे बड़ा और कम आबादी वाली केंद्रशासित प्रदेश है। जम्मू-कश्मीर पुनर्गठन अधिनियम- 2019 के पारित होने पहले लद्दाख जम्मू-कश्मीर राज्य का हिस्सा हुआ करता था।

31 अक्टूबर 2019 को भारत सरकार द्वारा लद्दाख को अलग केंद्रशासित प्रदेश घो��ित कर दिया गया।

इसके बाद से लद्दाख में राजनीतिक हलचल तेज होने लगी और स्थानीय नेताओं, समाजिक संगठ��� व आम जनता लद्दाख को पूर्ण केंद्रशासित प्रदेश या पूर्ण राज्य के दर्जे के लिए आंदोलन करने लगी।

तब से लद्दाख का मुद्दा लगातार भारतीय राजनीति में बना हुआ है।

[rightnewshindi]

अडानी के मुद्दे पर कांग्रेस का बड़ा ऐलान, 22 अगस्त को देशभर में होगा विरोध प्रदर्शन; राहुल गांधी करेंगे प्रेस कॉन्फ्रेंस

Delhi News: अडानी मुद्दे पर कांग्रेस केंद्र सरकार से आर-पार की लड़ाई के मूड में है। कांग्रेस ने अब इस मुद्दे को संसद से लेकर सड़कों तक ले जाने का ऐलान किया है। कांग्रेस ने देशभर में विरोध प्रदर्शन का ऐलान किया है। दरअसल, हिंडनबर्ग ने सेबी प्रमुख माधबी पुरी बुच पर एक रिपोर्ट जारी की थी। इस रिपोर्ट के बाद केंद्र सरकार विपक्षी दलों के निशाने पर आ गई है। इसे लेकर कांग्रेस नेता केसी वेणुगोपाल ने…

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Douglas Murray

Published: Feb 24, 2024

Like a number of ‘anti-colonialists’, William Dalrymple lives in colonial splendour on the outskirts of Delhi. The writer often opens the doors of his estate to slavering architectural magazines. A few years ago, one described his pool, pool house, vast family rooms, animals, cockatoo ‘and the usual entourage of servants that attends any successful man in India’s capital city’.

I only mention Dalrymple because he is one of a large number of people who have lost their senses by going rampaging online about the alleged genocide in Gaza. He recently tweeted at a young Jewish woman who said she was afraid to travel into London during the Palestinian protests: ‘Forget 30,000 dead in Gaza, tens of thousands more in prison without charge, five MILLION in stateless serfdom, forget 75 years of torture, rape, dispossession, humiliation and occupation, IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU.’ It is one thing when a street rabble loses their minds. But when people who had minds start to lose them, that is another thing altogether.

I find it curious. By every measure, what is happening in Gaza is not genocide. More than that – it’s not even regionally remarkable.

Hamas’s own figures – not to be relied upon – suggest that around 28,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October. Most of the international media likes to claim these people are all innocent civilians. In fact, many of the dead will have been killed by the quarter or so Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets that fall short and land inside Gaza.

Then there are the more than 9,000 Hamas terrorists who have been killed by the Israel Defence Forces. As Lord Roberts of Belgravia recently pointed out, that means there is fewer than a two to one ratio of civilians to terrorists killed: ‘An astonishingly low ratio for modern urban warfare where the terrorists routinely use civilians as human shields.’ Most western armies would dream of such a low civilian casualty count. But because Israel is involved (‘Jews are news’) the libellous hyperbole is everywhere.

For almost 20 years since Israel withdrew from Gaza, we have heard the same allegations. Israel has been accused of committing genocide in Gaza during exchanges with Hamas in 2009, 2012 and 2014. As a claim it is demonstrably, obviously false. When Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, the population of the Strip was around 1.3 million. Today it is more than two million, with a male life expectancy higher than in parts of Scotland. During the same period, the Palestinian population in the West Bank grew by a million. Either the Israelis weren’t committing genocide, or they tried to commit genocide but are uniquely bad at it. Which is it? Well, when it comes to Israel it seems people don’t have to choose. Everything and anything can be true at once.

Here is a figure I’ve never seen anyone raise. It’s an ugly little bit of maths, but stay with me. If you wish, you might add together all the people killed in every conflict involving Israel since its foundation.

In 1948, after the UN announced the state, all of Israel’s Arab neighbours invaded to try to wipe it out. They failed. But the upper estimate of the casualties on all sides came to some 20,000 people. The upper estimates of the wars of 1967 and 1973, when Israel’s neighbours once again attempted to annihilate it, are very similar (some 20,000 and 15,000 respectively). Subsequent wars in Lebanon and Gaza add several thousands more to that figure. It means that up to the present war, some 60,000 people had died on every side in all wars involving Israel.

Over the past decade of civil war in Syria, Bashar al-Assad has managed to kill more than ten times that number. Although precise figures are hard to come by, Assad is reckoned to have murdered some 600,000 Arab Muslims in his country. Meaning that every six to 12 months he manages to kill the same number as died in every war involving Israel ever.

There are lots of reasons you might give to explain this: that people don’t care when Muslims kill Muslims; that people don’t care when Arabs kill Arabs; that they only care if Israel is involved. Allow me to give another example that is suggestive.

No one knows how many people have been killed in the war in Yemen in recent years. From 2015-2021 the UN estimated perhaps 377,000 – ten times the highest estimate of the recent death toll in Gaza. The only time I’ve heard people scream on British streets about Yemen has been after the Houthis started attacking British and American ships in the Red Sea and the deadbeat idiots on the streets of London started chanting: ‘Yemen, Yemen, make us proud, turn another ship around.’ Because like all leftists and Islamists there is no terrorist group these people can’t get a pash on, so long as that terrorist group is against us.

I often wonder why this obsession arises when the war involves Israel. Why don’t people trawl along our streets and scream by their thousands about Syria, Yemen, China’s Uighurs or a hundred other terrible things? There are only two possible conclusions.

The first is a journalistic one. Ever since Marie Colvin was killed it became plain that western journalists were a target in Syria. Not eager to be the target, most journalists hotfooted it out of the country. Some who didn’t fell into the hands of Isis. Israel-Gaza wars by contrast do not have the same dynamic and on a technical level the media can applaud itself for reporting from a warzone where they are not the target.

But I suspect it is a moral explanation which explains the situation so many people find themselves in. They simply enjoy being able to accuse the world’s only Jewish state of ‘genocide’ and ‘Nazi-like behaviour’. They enjoy the opportunity to wound Jews as deeply as possible. Many find it satisfies the intense fury they feel when Israel is winning.

Like being fanned on your veranda while lambasting the evils of Empire, it is a paradox, to be sure. But it is also a perversity. And it doesn’t come from nowhere.

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"From the water to the water, Palestine is Arab."

This is the actual genocide.

[workersolidarity]

(subtitles are autogenerated and are not particularly accurate)

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MASSIVE FARMER'S PROTESTS OUTSIDE INDIAN CAPITAL AND ACROSS THE NORTH OF THE COUNTRY

📹 Massive protests are confronted with teargas, armed police with rubber bullets and drones as thousands of farmers, mostly in India's northern Punjab region, protest on Tuesday demanding a Minimum Support Price or MSP for all crops to raise farmer's income.

Dozens of Farmer's unions participated in the strikes, calling for a "Delhi Chalo" or March to Delhi.

Police in and around the capital have erected barriers on highways surrounding New Delhi, and have begun firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the approaching farmers.

Tractors, along with thousands of farm hands, are seen in footage nearing the outskirts of New Delhi, in the northern Haryana state, being confronted by officers with gas and smoke bombs, including some dropped from buzzing drones overhead.

Authorities have shut down Internet services in some areas where protestors approach, and have erected concrete roadblocks and barriers, while local officials have banned public gatherings and are deploying extra security personnel.

Officials in New Delhi emphasized that sufficient police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed to all entry points to the city.

Farmers are demanding dozens of changes, including a new MSP or floor price for crops to increase and guarantee farmer income, as well as a full debit waiver, according to local union officials.

Political officials in New Delhi say they're open to talks, with Agriculture Minister, Arjun Munda telling reporters on Tuesday that the Federal government already is "bound to protect the interest of farmers."

"Farmers also need to understand that inconvenience shouldn’t be caused to the public,” Minister Munda said, adding the government was always ready for negotiations with the Farmer's unions.

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"We want justice,” doctors chanted in Kolkata, waving handwritten signs that read, “No safety, no service!”

16 Aug 2024

Indian doctors have called for a nationwide shutdown of hospital services as public fury over the rape and murder of a trainee medic in the eastern city of Kolkata last week mounts.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA), the country’s largest grouping of medics with 400,000 members, said the 24-hour shutdown would be implemented on Saturday, affecting most hospital departments except for essential services.

The shutdown comes after thousands of people took to the streets in several cities to express their outrage at the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor, whose brutalised body was found on August 9 at Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

On Friday, large protests were held in various cities – including Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state, Mumbai in the west and Hyderabad in southern India – demanding justice and better security at medical campuses and hospitals.

“We want justice,” doctors chanted in Kolkata, waving handwritten signs that read, “No safety, no service!”

Demonstrators held banners calling for accountability as they gathered near parliament in New Delhi.

“Doctors, especially women are vulnerable to violence because of the nature of the profession. It is for the authorities to provide for the safety of doctors inside hospitals and campuses,” the IMA said in a statement issued on Thursday on X.

Doctors hold posters and shout slogans during a protest condemning the rape and murder of the trainee doctor, at a medical college in Ahmedabad, western India, on August 16 [Amit Dave/Reuters]

Multiple medical unions in both government and private systems have backed the strike.

Doctors in government hospitals across several states on Monday had halted elective services “indefinitely” in protest.

Indian media have reported that the murdered doctor was found in the teaching hospital’s seminar hall, suggesting she had gone there for a brief rest during a long shift.

An autopsy confirmed sexual assault. Doctors say the circumstances of the rape point to the vulnerability of medics left without proper protection and facilities.

Though police have detained a man who worked at the hospital helping people navigate busy queues, state government officers have been accused of mishandling the case.

On Wednesday night, the hospital where the trainee doctor was killed was attacked. Police did not identify who was behind the rampage, but said they have arrested 19 people so far.

Little has changed

There were more than 31,000 reported rapes in India in 2022, the latest year for which data is available, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

The gang rape and murder in 2012 of a young woman on a bus in Delhi, northern India, led to nationwide protests and outrage over the country’s failure to tackle sexual violence against women.

Since 2012, the government has brought in sweeping changes to the criminal justice system, including tougher sentences and the death penalty for repeat offenders.

Conviction rates for rape ranged between 27-28 percent from 2018-2022, according to NCRB data.

The definition of rape has also been widened to include non-penetrative acts and the age threshold for rape trials lowered so 16-year-olds can be tried as adults.

But campaigners say little has changed despite the tougher laws.

Criminal lawyer Rebecca M John, who has represented many rape victims, said some rapists still believe they can get away with their crimes.

“One of the factors would be the absence of fear of the law,” she said.

Many cases of crimes against women also go unreported because of the stigma surrounding sexual violence and a lack of faith in the police.