 "Protesters, including doctors, take out a march against the sexual assault and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor, in Kolkata on Sunday Photo: PTI")
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 2024, when India ushered in its 78th year of Independence, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Kolkata to protest the alleged rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The protest, aimed at “reclaiming the night”, was one of the largest in the city in recent memory.
Holding candles, placards and flaming torches, and blowing conch shells, women from across West Bengal — spanning socio-economic lines — flooded the streets. Men joined in solidarity.
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