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Remembering Jyoti

A theatre group will perform with activists on the streets of the national capital to keep the 23-year-old's struggle alive.

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Next week on December 16, it will be a year since the barbaric rape of 23-year-old medical student Jyoti Singh Pandey. The nation saw Delhi erupt into anger and disgust at the hineous crime which resulted in the death of the victim.

Theatre group Swaang and a group of progressive people called Majma have come together to keep that flame burning which engulfed the country after the crime came into the limelight. Jurrat is a campaign which is an outcry of citizens to claim back the streets of the national capital. It is an effort to remember Jyoti’s fight and not allow it to fade into the oblivion of a statistical record or a number in a list of crimes that were committed in a particular year in a particular city.

Actress Swara Bhaskar, Swaang member and host of the campaign, says, “Jurrat is an endeavour to fight our own complacency as a society and not allow Jyoti’s fight and spirit and ordeal to become a crime-record-statistic. It is a collective effort to bring like-minded artistes and intellectuals together for this effort.”

The day will see a mobile music concert that will map the route taken by Jyoti and her friend on the evening of December 16, 2012. At each spot, Swaang will be joined in a 20-minute performance by other prominent artistes like Rabbi Shergill, Sona Mahapatra, and Swanand Kirkire. The moving caravan will have people from all walks of life, including activists and students, who will be carrying posters and banners in a spirit and show of solidarity. As Shergill says, ““This is a time to cure, a time to heal. Glad I can contribute.”

“Women from across classes are saying no to sexual violence and are standing up and demanding justice. We now need to see whether the legal system will have the ‘Jurrat’ to live up to the constitutional guarantee of equality and dignity,” concludes activist Vrinda Grover.   

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