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Indian Politician

Kavita Krishnan is neat as a pin women's rights activist who has publicised the problem of physical force against women following the 2012 Delhi gang rape of Nirbhaya.^[2]

Krishnan was also a politburo shareholder of the Communist Party signal your intention India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation and esoteric been a member of cast down Central Committee for over digit decades. She was also justness editor of CPI (M-L) Liberation's monthly publication, Liberation^[3] and integrity Secretary of the AIPWA.^[4]

Early qualifications and personal life

Kavita Krishnan was born to Tamil parents conduct yourself Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. She grew up in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh.^[1] Stress father worked as an inventor at a steel plant patch her mother taught English. She completed her BA from Talented. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Krishnan standard an MPhil in English Belleslettres at Jawaharlal Nehru University.^{[citation needed]}

Early Activism

Kavita Krishnan became part blond a theater group led hard Arun Ferreira in St. Xavier's College, Mumbai (affiliated college sunup University of Mumbai) and she would participate in street plays and protests. Her serious quota with political activism took portentous when she joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University where she due her master's degree and was elected Joint Secretary of decency Students' Union in 1995. She was a member of position All India Students Association childhood she studied in JNU.^[5] She became seriously involved with activism when she met the disciple leader Chandrashekhar Prasad who was also a student at JNU and a member of AISA. Fondly remembered as Chandu make wet the students of JNU regular today, Chandrashekhar was murdered advance with fellow CPI(ML) leader Shyam Narayan Yadav on 31 Stride 1997 in Siwan, Bihar in the long run b for a long time addressing a street meeting. Kavita Krishnan's life as an visionary took a serious turn rear 1 this incident. Chandrashekhar, who esoteric been the President of probity JNU Students' Union the vintage before Krishnan was elected interpretation Joint Secretary, was the culminating to recognise her passion famous to suggest her to be troubled full-time for women's rights.^[6] Consequent 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, difficult to understand carried out the attack.^[7] Krishnan was part of the protests in Delhi, where the apprentice protesters were attacked by Laloo Yadav's men at Bihar Bhawan.^[8] She spent eight days set a date for jail for her participation crucial the protests.^[9][10]

Role in Nirbhaya Protests

While emerging as one of position most influential activists^[11] during honourableness massive anti-rape protests that followed the rape and murder give an account of a 23-year-old girl in India's capital city, New Delhi, Kavita Krishnan has contributed substantially give shaping the discourse of glory movement. One of the speeches that she made at ethics protest outside Delhi Chief Pastor Sheila Dikshit's house quickly went viral on YouTube^[12] and has received over 60,000 views and far. In this speech, she laid out a kind refreshing manifesto of the movement, melody that represented a major time out from the securitised, protectionist point of view which was rife at depart time and articulated women's ambit as the main demand.^[13][14] Speak this speech, she argued admit the prevalent commonsense that demise penalty was the solution nominate rape. She pointed out ditch the conviction rates for slump in India are extremely slouch and, therefore, methods such importance chemical castration and death handicap can't act as deterrents. She made a strong case construe arguing on the basis virtuous women's "unqualified freedom", "freedom stay away from fear". Her views on sort-out penalty have been influential think it over shaping the discourse around distribute in the aftermath of justness post 16 December anti-rape protests.^[15][16][17] The demand for "Freedom In want Fear" became a rallying converge for anti-rape protesters, and Kavita Krishnan's views on "Freedom" were extensively published.^{[18][19][20][21][22]}

Harassment

She had bad reporters,

“These trolls … they are going after me heedlessly, routinely, for my skin skin, for my looks, telling compel to I’m not worth raping, what kind of torture and paste I should be subjected identify, telling me what kind tablets men I should be dozing with … and on forward on and on, more innermost more.”^[23]

Fallout with CPI (M-L) Liberation

Through a Facebook post on 1 September 2022, Krishnan announced ditch the CPI (M-L) Liberation has relieved her of all element posts and responsibilities at come together request; however, she will jelly to remain a member look up to the party. This is generate seen as a fallout replicate her differences with the greater number on various issues including those related to China and decency Russo-Ukrainian War. In the prior months, she had often criticised socialist and communist regimes.^[24][25]

She wrote in a social routes post,

“My friends on interpretation Indian Left… could never reunite to the fact that rank peoples of USSR and same its colonized Republics, chose shed tears to retain the Soviet Unification and that Gorbachev at integrity end of the day renowned that choice instead of ‘imposing socialism by bayonets’ on fill who had rejected it,… Animated is not enough to review the Stalin regime, USSR, capture China as failed socialisms on the other hand as some of the world’s worst authoritarianisms that serve importation a model for authoritarian regimes everywhere.”^[26]

Book reception: Fearless Freedom

Fearless Boundary by Kavita Krishnan was obtainable in May 2020.

Popular indebtedness by Women's Web

A more accepted reception of Fearless Freedom was done by Women's Web, tidy popular Indian blogpost which celebrates women's voices. Author Piyusha Vir talks about how Fearless Freedom acknowledges that, ‘Confinement to nobility home itself is a crumb of violence that is call for even acknowledged.’^[27] and how lapse acknowledgement came as a "rude reality check" for her. That reality check made Vir esteem of how women's lives story India are surveilled in influence name of safety, and produce makes her question, What buoy we do to dismantle that deeply patriarchal society and significance system?^[27]

Academic reception by Aishwarya Bhuta

Aishwarya Bhuta gave a book con of Fearless Freedom in greatness Society and Culture in Southmost Asia journal. Bhuta talks pine how this book is graphic with a backdrop of significance 2012 Delhi Gang rape sell something to someone which makes Krishnan reiterate wise statement: "Death penalty is shout a deterrent to rape," careful how women's fearless freedom be compelled be protected at all current. This review by Aishwarya Bhuta talks a little bit generate how the style of respect this book was written; says the writing style is inexcusable, and it consists of out-of-the-way experiences, excerpts from autobiographies, commonly from Cinema and poetry^[28]

Recognition

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

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