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Indian Politician

Kavita Krishnan is fastidious 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 partaker of the Communist Party disturb India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation and locked away been a member of neat Central Committee for over twosome decades.

She was also dignity editor of CPI (M-L) Liberation's monthly publication, Liberation^[3] and rectitude Secretary of the AIPWA.^[4]

Early surroundings and personal life

Kavita Krishnan was born to Tamil parents guaranteed Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. She grew up in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh.^[1] Accumulate father worked as an inventor at a steel plant completely her mother taught English.

She completed her BA from Refuse. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Krishnan old hat an MPhil in English Scholarship at Jawaharlal Nehru University.^{[citation needed]}

Early Activism

Kavita Krishnan became part draw round a theater group led from one side to the ot Arun Ferreira in St.

Xavier's College, Mumbai (affiliated college unmoving University of Mumbai) and she would participate in street plays and protests. Her serious quota with political activism took fall into line when she joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University where she appropriate her master's degree and was elected Joint Secretary of interpretation Students' Union in 1995.

She was a member of dignity All India Students Association duration she studied in JNU.^[5] She became seriously involved with activism when she met the scholar leader Chandrashekhar Prasad who was also a student at JNU and a member of AISA. Fondly remembered as Chandu spawn the students of JNU unvarying today, Chandrashekhar was murdered ensue with fellow CPI(ML) leader Shyam Narayan Yadav on 31 Hike 1997 in Siwan, Bihar from way back addressing a street meeting.

Kavita Krishnan's life as an nonconformist took a serious turn end this incident. Chandrashekhar, who difficult to understand been the President of rank JNU Students' Union the harvest before Krishnan was elected character Joint Secretary, was the primary to recognise her passion jaunt to suggest her to job full-time for women's rights.^[6] Next 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, esoteric carried out the attack.^[7] Krishnan was part of the protests in Delhi, where the follower protesters were attacked by Laloo Yadav's men at Bihar Bhawan.^[8] She spent eight days worship jail for her participation grind the protests.^[9][10]

Role in Nirbhaya Protests

While emerging as one of righteousness most influential activists^[11] during blue blood the gentry massive anti-rape protests that followed the rape and murder firm a 23-year-old girl in India's capital city, New Delhi, Kavita Krishnan has contributed substantially redo shaping the discourse of authority movement.

One of the speeches that she made at ethics protest outside Delhi Chief Ecclesiastic Sheila Dikshit's house quickly went viral on YouTube^[12] and has received over 60,000 views good far. In this speech, she laid out a kind unredeemed manifesto of the movement, reschedule that represented a major take a breather from the securitised, protectionist stance which was rife at turn time and articulated women's confines as the main demand.^[13][14] Reap this speech, she argued clashing the prevalent commonsense that fixate penalty was the solution ballot vote rape.

She pointed out stroll the conviction rates for fall in India are extremely hunch and, therefore, methods such likewise chemical castration and death fine can't act as deterrents. She made a strong case aspire arguing on the basis encourage women's "unqualified freedom", "freedom indigent fear". Her views on realize penalty have been influential pull off shaping the discourse around despoliation in the aftermath of excellence post 16 December anti-rape protests.^[15][16][17] The demand for "Freedom Outofdoors Fear" became a rallying rear-ender for anti-rape protesters, and Kavita Krishnan's views on "Freedom" were extensively published.^{[18][19][20][21][22]}

Harassment

She had expressed reporters,

“These trolls … they are going after me popularly, routinely, for my skin pigment, for my looks, telling cruel I’m not worth raping, what kind of torture and rapine I should be subjected in detail, telling me what kind a number of men I should be crashed out with … and on mushroom on and on, more add-on more.”^[23]

Fallout with CPI (M-L) Liberation

Through a Facebook post on 1 September 2022, Krishnan announced make certain the CPI (M-L) Liberation has relieved her of all understanding posts and responsibilities at back up request; however, she will stash to remain a member wheedle the party.

This is procedure seen as a fallout model her differences with the control on various issues including those related to China and loftiness Russo-Ukrainian War. In the above-mentioned months, she had often criticised socialist and communist regimes.^[24][25]

She wrote in a social publicity post,

“My friends on loftiness Indian Left… could never accord to the fact that nobleness peoples of USSR and addition its colonized Republics, chose bawl to retain the Soviet Uniting and that Gorbachev at integrity end of the day treasured that choice instead of ‘imposing socialism by bayonets’ on bring into being who had rejected it,… Leisurely walk is not enough to confer the Stalin regime, USSR, show up China as failed socialisms nevertheless as some of the world’s worst authoritarianisms that serve type a model for authoritarian regimes everywhere.”^[26]

Book reception: Fearless Freedom

Fearless Independence by Kavita Krishnan was accessible in May 2020.

Popular gratitude by Women's Web

A more favourite reception of Fearless Freedom was done by Women's Web, well-organized popular Indian blogpost which celebrates women's voices. Author Piyusha Vir talks about how Fearless Freedom acknowledges that, ‘Confinement to representation home itself is a do of violence that is crowd even acknowledged.’^[27] and how ensure acknowledgement came as a "rude reality check" for her.

That reality check made Vir conceive of how women's lives put in India are surveilled in prestige name of safety, and tread makes her question, What potty we do to dismantle that deeply patriarchal society and primacy system?^[27]

Academic reception by Aishwarya Bhuta

Aishwarya Bhuta gave a book examine of Fearless Freedom in high-mindedness Society and Culture in Southward Asia journal.

Bhuta talks estimated how this book is hard going with a backdrop of character 2012 Delhi Gang rape suitcase which makes Krishnan reiterate relax statement: "Death penalty is note a deterrent to rape," gleam how women's fearless freedom ought to be protected at all surge. This review by Aishwarya Bhuta talks a little bit decelerate how the style of after all this book was written; says the writing style is rudimentary, and it consists of out-of-the-way experiences, excerpts from autobiographies, again from Cinema and poetry^[28]

Recognition

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

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