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30 days that bound a nation - in shame and concern (One month after Dec 16 gang-rape)

New Delhi, Jan 15: She was the faceless woman who bound a nation in concern and shame and made India a talking point across the world. A month after a young physiotherapy intern was gang-raped

IANS Updated on: January 16, 2013 7:05 IST
Indian schoolgirls hold placards during a prayer ceremony to mourn the death of a 23-year-old gang rape victim, at a school in Ahmadabad, India, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. Shocked Indians on Saturday were mourning the death of the woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus in New Delhi nearly two weeks ago in an ordeal that galvanized people to demand greater protection for women from sexual violence. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
Vikas Sharma, a young protester, said: “The movement will never end till we have achieved our goal - till the anti-rape laws and anti-sexual harassment laws are made more stringent.”

He is a sales executive who said he manages to be present at Jantar Mantar, the 18th century observatory that became the epicentre of the protests.

The anger has been sustained. And it must continue to be so, many thousand Indians have resolved.







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