As thousands of voices screaming “I am Gauri, we are Gauri” echoed in the streets of Bengaluru on Tuesday, the message was clear – attacks of voices of dissent will not be tolerated and fight left behind by Gauri will be taken forward.
The I Am Gauri campaign, insisted that Tuesday’s rally was not condolences meet but a show of strength. The release of the special edition of Gauri Lankesh Patrike, affirmed that promise.
However, for the young, women journalist poised entering profession, Gauri’s death comes as a setback. The brazenness of attack has raised questions in their mind, about their safety.
A section of Presidency University students in Kolkata have launched a protest against higher rate of taxes on sanitary napkins under the new Goods and Services Tax regime and demanded installation of vending machines across the campus.
While covering a protest march by the Left front in Kolkata on Monday, over 50 journalists were assaulted by the city police. Many of them were badly injured and required hospitalisation, as freelance journalist Tanmoy Bhaduri’s photographs reveal. Even as the Communist Party of India’s (Marxist) farmers’ wing, the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and other Left factions marched to “Nabanna” (State Secretariat) on Monday to protest against alleged corruption in the Mamata Banerjee led government among other issues, tear-gas shells and water canons were unleashed upon the agitators by the police, to break up the rally.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on 26 April ordered a ban on social media sites in the Valley for a period of one month or “until further notice” in the wake of the protests in the region.
Stone-pelting in Kashmir has dominated headlines for a while now. But the third week of April saw the birth of a new face of rebellion, with young girls taking to the front-lines of the protest. School-going girls picked up stones and stood their ground against gun-toting men in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk. Dressed in school uniforms, and standing tall with bags on their backs, they covered their faces and proclaimed loudly that they had had enough of being told how to lead their lives. The Quint reached out to schoolgirls who had taken to stone pelting on 24 April.
Students of Panjab University clashed with the police on Tueday after a stir organised by the former turned awry. Based on a call by various student bodies, scholars had stopped attending classes to protest against the Varsity’s decision to hike tuition fees.
Defending party colleague Ravindra Gaikwad in Lok Sabha, Shiv Sena lawmaker Anandrao Adsul on Monday raked up Comedian Kapil Sharma’s in-flight attack on co-star Sunil Grover, while the former was allegedly under the influence of alcohol.
"We have access to library but not the washrooms.. Whats the logic ?" asks Rahee Shruti Ganesh, a student of Final year BA who was one of the students protesting in front of main building of Fergusson college. Few students had gathered holding placards in their hand and were shouting slogans at the circle in front of the college main building. Their demand, access to the ladies washroom in the campus on holidays and late in the night. They had to launch a protest for their basic right. Fergusson is one of the most reputed colleges in Pune. It recently got autonomous stature and was also declared as college of excellence by UGC on the basis of the quality of education and the facilities provided on the campus. Ironically the basic facility and right for girls remain ignored. Video: The Quint Music: Big Bang Fuzz For more videos, subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/2aIcith Check out The Quint for more news: https://www.thequint.com
Protests erupted in Tamil Nadu’s Rameswaram after a 22-year-old fisherman was shot dead, reportedly by the Sri Lankan Navy on Monday. Thousands have now gathered in front of Bridgo’s house, who was shot in the neck while fishing off the off the Katchatheevu isle. His family has demanded a probe into the matter.
National Students Union of India (NSUI) initiated a 'Gift a rose' campaign outside Ramjas college to instill some peace in Delhi University. Violence gripped the Ramjas campus post the clash between the ABVP and the students over the participation of Umar Khalid – JNU student –in a seminar in Ramjas. Pained by the fear evident in the students NSUI began a campaign to ensure peace and harmony in the campus by distributing chocolates and roses to every student.
First, the rains failed them. Then successive central governments failed them. And then the corporates let them down. The people of Neduvasal, a village in the Cauvery delta region in Tamil Nadu’s Pudukkottai district, have awoken and sparked a new revolution. The quiet little village with paddy fields, coconut farms and groundnut crops, is suddenly bustling with protesters all around. Student groups, politicians, film stars, environmentalists, researchers and representatives of several NGO are visiting the village to show support in a fight against the central government’s ambitious hydrocarbon extraction project.
The Ramjas college protests entered day three on Thursday, with students and teachers gathering outside the police headquarters at ITO in Delhi.
Speaking to The Quint, Umar Khalid said the “bullying tactics” of the ABVP cannot stop him.
Khalid, who is the center of the protest, said that ABVP’s actions were pre-planned.
“This was never about me. They made it about my presence to ensure that the seminar doesn’t happen. I was not even present on both the days of the violence. They are standing up to their true name – Akhil Bharatiya Vandalism Parishad,” he said.
DU's North Campus
witnessed clashes on Tuesday and Wednesday. A debate event at Ramjas College
became a flash point as students of Left- affiliated AISA and the RSS-backed
ABVP clashed.
So yesterday the protest
outside Ramjas college got violent. And I say this from personal experience
because I got beat up too. And yes my assaulter was a woman who happened to be
on the ABVP side of the police cordon. And I was standing where a lot of fellow
journalists were but I just happened to be the one directly within grab ‘n’
pummel reach. My colleagues, Anant and Shiv got thrashed as well. By the cops.
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