Tens of thousands of women and men marched for a ‘Reclaim the Night’ event at midnight on Thursday in Kolkata and other cities, holding candles, signs, and flaming torches in the rain as they demanded speedy justice for the victim. In interviews and on social media, many women have expressed frustration for having to fear for their safety in public.
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00:00We don't have any safety, we don't have bouncers, at night especially when we do the night duties
00:08we are alone, we have very less staff, so it becomes very difficult sometimes.
00:13Anyone can walk up to us, threaten us, scream at us, punch at us, throw our BB apparatuses
00:18at our heads.
00:19It has happened multiple times.
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00:37Here we don't have facilities to stay, to sit.
00:38We don't have washrooms for girls.
00:39Basically we don't have doctor's duty rooms for females.
00:40It's common, everybody can use it, patients can use it.
00:41facilities to stay, to sit. We don't have a washroom differently for girls.
00:47Basically we don't have doctors duty room different for females. It's a common
00:52everybody can use it, patients use it. So we basically demand our own waiting rooms,
00:58restrooms at least.