Activists retrace Nirbhaya's journey with songs and protests

A group of young rights activists today retraced the sequence of events to the leading to the fatal gangrape of the 23-year-old woman in a moving bus on way from Saket to Mahipalapur here, marking the first anniversary of an incident that had shaken the conscience of the nation.
Boarding a chartered bus from Saket, the activists stopped by at the Munrika bus stand from where the duo had boarded the bus and chanted slogans and sang songs of "fearless freedom".
The gathering included students, artists, photographers, feminists and film actress Swara Bhaskar also lent vocal support to them. Her father and strategic affairs expert C Uday Bhaskar was also in the crowd.

Wearing red, black and pink bandanas, they held up placards reading "We'll Take No More", "Bekhauf Azadi", "Silence Hides Violence - Speak Up" and "Nirbhaya - One Year Later" and recalled that fateful night.
"We are marking the day by retracing the route taken by Nirbhaya and her friend that day from Saket to Mahipalpur in a chartered whiteline bus. We want tell the people that we have not forgotten...And yes, I believe that change is possible, if we can work together," Swara told PTI.
Another activist Shambhavi, part of a feminist group that was on board the chartered bus, said "we wanted to relive the journey and pay our tribute to the brave one today".

The gathering at Munirka bus stand halted movement of traffic briefly.