From videos of molestation in Bihar’s Jamui to a gangrape in an uptown Delhi park, women are on the streets asking where can they be safe. The recent women students’ street marches in Delhi poses the question whether “encounter justice” and capital punishment can really make the streets safer for women.
Workers in Noida, Manesar, Faridabad, Panipat, Neemrana, Bhiwadi and other industrial areas across North Indian states have been on protest since early-April for better wages, in one of the largest working class assertions in the last decade. Nihal Koneru, a student of B.Sc. Economics - Finance at Shiv Nadar University, a private university in Greater Noida, reports on the spontaneous protests which erupted on campus, the first such action by university workers in the ongoing strike wave.
We are reproducing for our readers an open letter that was written by Com. Rajat during the JNUSU election in response to various student outfits which use the slogan "Jai Bhim - Lal Salaam".