Summary:
Security, they said, was not what they wanted, but freedom to go and do what they wanted, unmolested. We just saw women students in the gathering having had to leave because of curfew in their hostels. A poem written by activist and poet Kamala Bhasin and translated into Malayalam was sung on the occasion. ‘I will go out’ is being held just a few weeks after large-scale anger and outrage over attacks in public on women in Bengaluru and New Delhi on New Year’s Eve. Women recounted their experiences of being harassed and the need to speak out..