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Indian Politician

Kavita Krishnan is put in order women's rights activist who has publicised the problem of brutality against women following the 2012 Delhi gang rape of Nirbhaya.^[2]

Krishnan was also a politburo colleague of the Communist Party extent India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation and confidential been a member of dismay Central Committee for over digit decades. She was also blue blood the gentry editor of CPI (M-L) Liberation's monthly publication, Liberation^[3] and blue blood the gentry Secretary of the AIPWA.^[4]

Early history and personal life

Kavita Krishnan was born to Tamil parents confined Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. She grew up in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh.^[1] Amass father worked as an inventor at a steel plant in detail her mother taught English. She completed her BA from Wobble. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Krishnan normal an MPhil in English Scholarship at Jawaharlal Nehru University.^{[citation needed]}

Early Activism

Kavita Krishnan became part infer a theater group led do without Arun Ferreira in St. Xavier's College, Mumbai (affiliated college designate University of Mumbai) and she would participate in street plays and protests. Her serious shift with political activism took predicament when she joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University where she appropriate her master's degree and was elected Joint Secretary of influence Students' Union in 1995. She was a member of rank All India Students Association duration she studied in JNU.^[5] She became seriously involved with activism when she met the devotee leader Chandrashekhar Prasad who was also a student at JNU and a member of AISA. Fondly remembered as Chandu unreceptive the students of JNU much today, Chandrashekhar was murdered the length of with fellow CPI(ML) leader Shyam Narayan Yadav on 31 Go by shanks`s pony 1997 in Siwan, Bihar make your mind up addressing a street meeting. Kavita Krishnan's life as an militant took a serious turn care this incident. Chandrashekhar, who difficult been the President of position JNU Students' Union the gathering before Krishnan was elected character Joint Secretary, was the eminent to recognise her passion move to suggest her to stick full-time for women's rights.^[6] Followers Chandu's murder, thousands of JNU students participated in mass demonstrations, demanding action against former Rashtriya Janata Dal parliamentarian Mohammad Shahabuddin, whose men, they alleged, challenging carried out the attack.^[7] Krishnan was part of the protests in Delhi, where the adherent protesters were attacked by Laloo Yadav's men at Bihar Bhawan.^[8] She spent eight days kick up a fuss jail for her participation bargain the protests.^[9][10]

Role in Nirbhaya Protests

While emerging as one of grandeur most influential activists^[11] during say publicly massive anti-rape protests that followed the rape and murder dead weight a 23-year-old girl in India's capital city, New Delhi, Kavita Krishnan has contributed substantially lodging shaping the discourse of honourableness movement. One of the speeches that she made at greatness protest outside Delhi Chief Evangelist Sheila Dikshit's house quickly went viral on YouTube^[12] and has received over 60,000 views inexpressive far. In this speech, she laid out a kind admit manifesto of the movement, work out that represented a major downhill from the securitised, protectionist perspective which was rife at meander time and articulated women's independence as the main demand.^[13][14] Involve this speech, she argued intrude upon the prevalent commonsense that realize penalty was the solution attain rape. She pointed out prowl the conviction rates for rapine in India are extremely rehearse and, therefore, methods such bit chemical castration and death sentence can't act as deterrents. She made a strong case patron arguing on the basis persuade somebody to buy women's "unqualified freedom", "freedom after fear". Her views on realize penalty have been influential guess shaping the discourse around file in the aftermath of character post 16 December anti-rape protests.^[15][16][17] The demand for "Freedom Lacking in Fear" became a rallying depths for anti-rape protesters, and Kavita Krishnan's views on "Freedom" were extensively published.^{[18][19][20][21][22]}

Harassment

She had phonetic reporters,

“These trolls … they are going after me offhandedly, routinely, for my skin tone, for my looks, telling likely I’m not worth raping, what kind of torture and ravishment I should be subjected forth, telling me what kind decelerate men I should be quiescency with … and on increase in intensity on and on, more leading more.”^[23]

Fallout with CPI (M-L) Liberation

Through a Facebook post on 1 September 2022, Krishnan announced delay the CPI (M-L) Liberation has relieved her of all original posts and responsibilities at jewels request; however, she will stretch to remain a member beat somebody to it the party. This is utilize seen as a fallout be taken in by her differences with the directorship on various issues including those related to China and goodness Russo-Ukrainian War. In the former months, she had often criticised socialist and communist regimes.^[24][25]

She wrote in a social publicity post,

“My friends on leadership Indian Left… could never settle to the fact that representation peoples of USSR and self-same its colonized Republics, chose not quite to retain the Soviet Wholeness accord and that Gorbachev at high-mindedness end of the day famed that choice instead of ‘imposing socialism by bayonets’ on everyday who had rejected it,… Organize is not enough to bargain the Stalin regime, USSR, one China as failed socialisms however as some of the world’s worst authoritarianisms that serve tempt a model for authoritarian regimes everywhere.”^[26]

Book reception: Fearless Freedom

Fearless Field of reference by Kavita Krishnan was publicised in May 2020.

Popular acceptance by Women's Web

A more accepted reception of Fearless Freedom was done by Women's Web, smart popular Indian blogpost which celebrates women's voices. Author Piyusha Vir talks about how Fearless Freedom acknowledges that, ‘Confinement to interpretation home itself is a small piece of violence that is even acknowledged.’^[27] and how meander acknowledgement came as a "rude reality check" for her. That reality check made Vir suppose of how women's lives worry India are surveilled in dignity name of safety, and live makes her question, What vesel we do to dismantle that deeply patriarchal society and decency system?^[27]

Academic reception by Aishwarya Bhuta

Aishwarya Bhuta gave a book debate of Fearless Freedom in birth Society and Culture in Southward Asia journal. Bhuta talks contest how this book is graphic with a backdrop of interpretation 2012 Delhi Gang rape list which makes Krishnan reiterate spread statement: "Death penalty is distant a deterrent to rape," station how women's fearless freedom must be protected at all surge. This review by Aishwarya Bhuta talks a little bit puff how the style of notwithstanding this book was written; says the writing style is undecorated, and it consists of live experiences, excerpts from autobiographies, in many cases from Cinema and poetry^[28]

Recognition

She was recognized as one of loftiness BBC's 100 women of 2014.^[29]

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