Indian women attacked

India is the world's largest democracy. A country full of aspiration, poverty, hope, dreams, racism and class struggle with a broad political spectrum running from Communist-controlled states to ones run by Hindu religious fanatics. Despite all the crap the country has been through in the past 60 years, it's disheartening to see right-wing religious nutcases feeling empowered enough, in a large cosmopolitan city to attack women drinking alcohol in public.

The last thing India needs is more home-grown trouble.

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Women's emancipation has a long and turbulent history, full of contradictions. Whether it's those fighting for universal suffrage, but forgetting their darker skinned or colonial sisters, or those fighting for the right to get into universities and the workplace, there are always less visible struggles. The struggle against the hijab in Iran, for example, maybe gets headlines whereas the struggle to get into the boardroom doesn't.