IT was a dark night, a few hours before Independence Day. The City of Joy appeared to struggle for 'its tryst with destiny' and 'redeeming a pledge.' In their thousands-young medicos, elderly men, women and teenagers - they gathered at 8B Bus Stand, near Jadavpur University, and called it 'Reclaim the Night.'
"Ai shamoy je dorshak, se dhorsak (one who is a mute spectator is also a rapist in these times," they chanted loudly as a narrow passage through which they passed heaved in spasmodic anger. The RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a young medico was raped and murdered a few days ago, stood grimly silhouetted against human shadows draped in sweat and rancour ous rage out on the streets.
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