这些海报，正如举着它们的女性一样，毫不留情。“女孩不需要宵禁，强奸犯需要付出代价”，其中一张这样写道。“把你们的阴茎锁在家里，而不是把女人锁在家里”，另一张则这样写着。
The posters, just like the women holding them, were taking no prisoners. “Girls don’t need curfews, rapists need consequences,” read one. “Lock your dicks rather than your women at home,” read another.
数百名女性从大学校园的大门走出，步入德里的街头——在那里，性骚扰、性侵、街头性骚扰和猥亵是每日如影随形的威胁——她们齐声高呼，以愤怒与反抗的合唱呐喊：“我们要正义。”过去一周，印度大学校园内爆发的怒火具有双重性。导火索是德里近期发生的一系列残忍强奸案，其中包括三名冒充警察的男子在德里大学附近的一个公共公园里，对一名17岁少女实施的疑似集体强奸。
As hundreds of women walked from the gates of their university campus into the streets of Delhi– where sexual harassment, assault, catcalling and molestation are a constant, daily threat – they shouted together, in a chorus of rage and defiance: “We want justice.”The fury that has erupted on India’s university campuses over the past week has been double-edged. The trigger was a series of brutal rapes that have taken place in Delhi in recent weeks, including the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old in a public park close to Delhi university, by three men who posed as police officers.
仅仅一周前，另一名17岁少女在德里斯瓦鲁普纳加尔社区遭到集体强奸并被杀害。她当时是去见朋友。据称，嫌疑人强奸了她，将其刺死，并将尸体丢弃在田野中，数天后才被发现，尸体已被狗啃食过半。
Just a week earlier, another 17-year-old was gang raped and murdered in Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar neighbourhood, after she went to meet friends. The accused allegedly raped her, stabbed her to death and dumped her body in a field, where it was discovered days later half eaten by dogs.
同一个月内，还报告了一起11岁女孩和一名6岁女童被强奸的案件。上个月，一名16岁少女在德里登上卧铺巴士后，据称被司机和售票员强奸。
Rapes of an 11-year-old and a six-year old were also reported in the same month. Last month, a 16-year-old was allegedly raped by the bus driver and conductor after she boarded a sleeper bus in Delhi.
参与德里大学校园抗议活动的女性谴责这些针对未成年人的暴力强奸行为令人作呕、不可饶恕——但她们也极力强调，这些事件并非罕见。
Women who have taken part in protests on Delhi university campuses have condemned these alleged violent rapes on minors as disgusting and unforgivable – but they have also been at pains to emphasise that they are not out of the ordinary.
德里臭名昭著的尼尔巴娅强奸案已经过去14年，当时一名女子在公交车上遭到轮奸，并因伤势过重死亡。尽管该案引发了国际社会的愤怒，并促使一系列立法和政府承诺出台，但女性表示，一切都没有改变；对她们而言，印度的街道，尤其是德里的街道，依然和以往一样不安全。据统计，印度每20分钟就有一名女性遭到强奸——不过由于长期存在漏报，真实规模被认为要严重得多。
Fourteen years have passed since Delhi’s infamous Nirbhaya rape case, when a woman was gang raped on a bus and died from her injuries. But while it provoked international outrage and a slew of legislation and government promises, women say that nothing has changed; for them, India’s streets, particularly in Delhi, remain as unsafe as ever. According to statistics, a women is raped in India every 20 minutes – though the real scale is believed to be far worse due to chronic underreporting.
本周，最高法院表示，接连发生的五起强奸案“鲜明地凸显了系统性的失败”，他们不禁“将其与2012年的尼尔巴娅事件作出令人痛苦的类比”。
This week, the supreme court said the five successive rape cases “starkly underlined a systematic failure” and they could not help but “draw painful parallels to the Nirbhaya incident of 2012”.
21岁的瓦伊什纳维·德鲁是德里大学的一名历史系学生，也是周三下午“粉碎父权制”抗议游行中的女性抗议者之一。“我认识的女人里，没有一个住在这座城市还觉得安全，”她说。
Vaishnavi Dhruw, 21, a history student at Delhi university, was among the female protesters at the “smash the patriarchy” protest march on Wednesday afternoon. “I don’t know a single woman who lives in this city and feels safe,” she said.
尽管抗议的一些核心诉求是改善照明和加强警力，但德鲁强调，要想有任何改变，这个国家需要一场深刻的社会转变，让男性不再觉得自己对女性的身体拥有所有权。
While some of the key demands of the protest have been better lighting and policing, Dhruw emphasised that for anything to change, the country requires a deep societal shift where men no longer feel they have ownership over women’s bodies.
“我们游行不是为了安全，我们来这里是为了抗议，争取我们的自由，争取在自己街道上行走的最基本权利，”她说。“女性一次又一次被告知要待在室内，晚上不要出门，要遮好自己，要保护自己。社会什么时候才能告诉这个国家的男性不要强奸？”推动抗议的许多愤怒，也源于当局对强奸案的回应；女性说，这种回应再一次只是管制她们的自由。德里女性被告知晚上不要进入公园，德里最负盛名的一所女子学院也暂时停课。许多女生居住的宿舍实行严格宵禁，禁止她们夜间外出。
“We are not marching for safety, we are here to protest for our freedom, for the most basic right to walk in our own streets,’ she said. “Again and again, women are told to stay indoors, to not go out at night, to cover ourselves, to protect ourselves. When will society tell men in our country not to rape?” Much of the anger driving the protests has also been prompted by the response by the authorities to the rapes, which women say once again has only been to police their freedoms. Women in Delhi were told to stay out of parks at night, and classes were temporarily halted at one of Delhi’s most prestigious female colleges. Many hostels where female students stay impose strict curfews preventing them from going out at night. “Instead of going after criminals, you’re going to tell women to sit at home,” said Aranya Rathore, 25, a student at Delhi University.
“不去追捕罪犯，却让女性待在家里，”25岁的德里大学学生阿拉尼亚·拉索尔说。“要求加强监控不是解决办法。事实上，这只会进一步限制我们的自由。”女学生们表示，她们大量时间都花在了安全安排上——从穿着保守到重新规划日常行程以确保不独自出行或夜间外出，还得让手机始终保持可追踪的实时定位。人们普遍意识到，一旦发生任何事情，责任往往落在女性身上——无论是在家庭内部还是更广泛的社会层面；正如周三游行中的一块标语所指出的，“从来没有人问过强奸犯当时穿了什么”。
“A demand for more surveillance is not a solution. In fact, it’s going to curtail our freedom more.”Female students say a lot of their time is taken up by safety logistics – from wearing modest clothes to reorganising their days to ensure they do not travel alone or at night and always having a trackable live location on their phones. There is widespread awareness that should anything happen, the onus of blame – both within the family home and more widely in society – tends to fall on women; as one poster at Wednesday’s march pointed out, “no one ever asks what the rapist was wearing”.
然而，尽管她们竭尽全力，许多女性表示几乎不可能避免骚扰。26岁的阿南亚·维格是德里大学毕业生，也是性别平等倡议组织“Her Huq”的创始人。她说，她在大学校园周边和公共场所都经历过骚扰。
Yet despite their best efforts, many women said it was almost impossible to avoid harassment. Ananya Wig, a 26-year-old a graduate of Delhi University and the founder of Her Huq, a gender-equality initiative, said she has experienced harassment both around university campuses and in public spaces.
她讲述了一次事件：她和女性朋友从人力车上下来、走过学校大门时，一名司机摇下车窗开始自慰。“这不是在晚上，而是在大白天，”她说。“我一直住在德里，这座城市从未改变。”这些抗议活动凸显了许多印度女性面临的困境：她们受教育的比例比该国历史上任何时候都高，就业机会也比以往任何时候都好——但仍然不得不应对对其安全持续不断的、令人身心俱疲的威胁，以及来自家庭的保守压力。
She recounted an incident where a driver rolled down his car window and began masturbating as she and female friends got off a rickshaw and walked through the college gates. “This wasn’t at night, it was in the middle of the day,” she said. “I’ve always lived in Delhi and the city has not changed.”The protests have brought into focus a dilemma faced by many Indian women, who are being educated in greater numbers than any time in the country’s history and have better job opportunities than ever before – but still have to navigate the constant debilitating threats to their safety and the conservative pressures from their families.
“我认识很多女孩。不只是10年前，甚至今天仍是如此：她们在选择教育机构、工作以及其他就业机会时，都会考虑住所离自己有多近。”威格说。“她们不是依据成绩，也不是依据自己的志向，而只是想着：‘好吧，路程越短，我就越有可能安全。’”许多参加游行的德里大学学生表示，性骚扰在校园里十分普遍，并要求建立更完善的问责机制，以便举报侵犯行为。校方尚未对此作出回应。
“I know so many girls, not just 10 years ago, but even today, who end up choosing educational institutions and jobs and other employment opportunities depending on how close they are from their home,” said Wig. “Not on the basis of their marks, not on the basis of their aspirations, but simply, ‘OK, the shorter the distance is, the more likely it is that I will be safe.’”Many of the Delhi university students who took part in the marches said that sexual harassment had become prevalent on campus, and have demanded better accountability mechanisms for reporting assault. The university has not responded.
“德里大学目前是印度最负盛名的大学之一，但时有女性遭教授侵犯的案例，遗憾的是，有时甚至是为了成绩。”24岁的德维扬尼·萨尔卡尔说。她目前在德里大学攻读英语硕士学位。“这令人不齿，但这也是生活的现实。”许多参加游行的人表示，抗议活动发生在印度“蟑螂”运动之后并非巧合；这场运动吸引了数十万印度Z世代年轻人为推动教育改革而走上街头。
“Delhi University is one of the most prestigious universities in India right now but there are various cases of women being assaulted by professors, sometimes unfortunately also for grades,” said Devyani Sarkar, 24, who is studying for her masters in English at Delhi University. “It’s despicable, but it’s also a living truth.”Many on the marches said that it was no coincidence the protests took place in the aftermath of India’s “cockroach” movement which saw hundreds of thousands of young Gen Z Indians take to the streets over education reform.
“我们这一代人不怕站出来抗议。我们知道，社会必须改变。”17岁的苏巴妮说。“女性保持沉默的日子已经结束。”
“My generation is not afraid to stand up and protest. We know that society has to change,” said 17-year-old Subhani. “The days of women being silent is over.”