BHU protest is a sorry reminder of how little our universities care about women

September 28, 2017 08:41

My fingers scrolled through my Facebook feed as I went through other people's lives, random pictures, food videos and frequent opinion pieces on whatever the "hot news" that day was.

A few months ago I was that hot news and what a nightmare it was. As I read about the protests against the molestation of a woman at Banaras Hindu University, my eyes flashed across words -- protest, campus, safe, violence, lathi chargethat took me back to the time when I found myself at the centre of controversy.

In February this year, protests wracked Delhi University after the ABVP attacked a peaceful agitation at Ramjas College. When I raised my voice against the incident and also expressed my views on Indo-Pak relations, I was subjected to incessant trolling as well as rape and death threats. Although there was a protest held in support of me, how much have we really learned?

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