尽管警方设置路障并进行拘留，像尼哈·博拉这样的活动人士表示，他们决心继续对印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪施加压力。
Despite police barricades and detentions, activists like Neha Bora say they are determined to keep up the pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
在警方多次在她翻越封锁抗议现场路障时将其拘留后，尼哈·博拉上周末在Instagram上发文。
After the police repeatedly detained her as she climbed over barricades blocking the protest site in India’s capital, Neha Bora took to Instagram last weekend.
这位29岁的活动人士，已成为印度当前不满情绪的突出面孔，她向超过一百万的粉丝展示了当天淤青的累积情况，并以健身博主的风格呈现。
The 29-year-old activist, who has become a prominent face of the season of discontent gripping India, shared the day’s accumulation of bruises with her more than one million followers, leaning into the style of a fitness influencer.
“这是我的二头肌，这是我的三头肌，”她说，卷起袖子并指向每一处淤青。“看这里——我也练了肩部。”随后，她直视镜头，对德里警方倾泻怒火。她说，他们的恐吓不会阻止青年。
“This is my bicep, this is my tricep,” she said, rolling up her sleeves and pointing to each mark. “And see here — I had a shoulder day, too.”Then, looking straight into the camera, she unleashed her fury at the Delhi police. Their intimidation would not stop the youth, she said.
“我们明天还会再次游行，”她说。“告诉你们，你们无法夺走我们的自由，我们抗议的权利。”尼哈·博拉，全印度学生联盟全国主席，在新德里周日的一次抗议活动中被警方拘留。
“We will march again tomorrow,” she said. “To tell you that you can’t snatch our freedom, our right to protest.”Neha Bora, the National President of the All India Students’ Association, being detained by police during a protest in New Delhi on Sunday.
Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters 曾经，各种形式的抗议、游行和罢工在首都司空见惯。但过去十年，在纳伦德拉·莫迪总理的领导下，印度的异议空间一直在缩小，最近他的政府甚至拒绝允许在新德里唯一被划定的“抗议区”Jantar Mantar举行示威——而这本来就是抗议活动被迫聚集的唯一区域。相反，过去一周，安全部队不断向该地区推进，逮捕任何敢于聚集的人。
Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters Protests, marches and strikes of all kinds were once common in the capital. But the space for dissent in India has shrunk over the last decade under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and recently his government has refused to allow protests even in the one “designated area” called Jantar Mantar that they had been reduced to in New Delhi. Instead, over the past week columns of security forces have been moving in to pick up anyone daring to gather in the area.
但几个月来，印度的年轻人一直在用身体冒险，只为让自己的声音被听见。 battle lines 已经划清，青年团体正号召在周六举行他们迄今为止规模最大的一次游行。
But for months, India’s young have been putting their bodies on the line to be heard. The battle-lines are drawn, with youth groups calling for their biggest march yet on Saturday.
警方在最近几天里，在封锁了城市唯一指定的抗议场地后，一直在新德里拘留示威者。
Police have been detaining demonstrators in New Delhi in recent days after blocking off the city’s only designated protest site.
阿德南·阿比迪/路透社 夏季期间，他们因高考考试反复出现丑闻而要求教育部长辞职。一些抗议者，包括博拉女士，进行了长时间的绝食抗议。抗议活动只会越来越大，警方动用了水炮、催泪瓦斯，甚至发射橡皮弹，引发广泛愤怒。政府罕见地作出让步，部长辞职。
Adnan Abidi/Reuters During the summer, they demanded the resignation of the education minister over repeated scandals in college entrance exams. Some protesters, including Ms. Bora, went on extended hunger strikes. The protests only grew and the police unleashed water cannons, tear gas, and even pellet guns, causing widespread outrage. The government made a rare concession and the minister quit.
抗议者再次走上街头。这一次，他们对印度选民名单中被删除的超过1.3亿个名字表示愤怒，他们认为这是一项政治操作，旨在有利于莫迪的政党，而执政党对此予以否认。他们要求全国选举委员会主席辞职。
The protesters have taken to the streets again. This time they are voicing anger over the culling of more than 130 million names from India’s voter roll, which they argue was a political move to favor Mr. Modi’s party, which the ruling party denies. They are demanding the resignation of the country’s election commission chief.
他们在街头的持续施压以及对社交媒体的创造性使用，撕开了莫迪在其十二年执政期间建立的强大统治的一个缺口——这是传统政治反对派一直努力却难以做到的事情。
Their sustained pressure on the streets, and creative use of social media, has opened a crack in the powerful hold that Mr. Modi established during his dozen years in office — something the traditional political opposition struggled to do.
抗议者经常试图破坏警方的计划，刺穿车辆轮胎，甚至在一次事件中夺走本应用于将他们送往拘留所的公交车的钥匙。
Protesters have often tried to scuttle police plans, puncturing vehicle tires and in one instance running away with the key of the bus meant to take them to detention.
博拉女士是戏剧研究的博士生，也是左翼全印度学生联合会的主席。她说，愤怒的爆发表明任何强人只能巩固权力“到一定程度”。
Ms. Bora, a doctoral student in theater studies who is the president of the leftist All India Students’ Association, said the outpouring of anger was a sign that any strongman can consolidate power “only to a certain extent.”
“我不是说人们完全安逸、感到舒适，民主正在蓬勃发展，”她说。“但人们不再害怕警察了。”在德里的街头，抗议者与警方展开了一场猫捉老鼠的游戏，他们想出了各种巧妙的方式来躲避警方的阻拦。
“I’m not saying that people are completely at ease and they’re comfortable and the democracy is flourishing,” she said. “But people are not afraid of the police anymore.”On the streets of Delhi, protesters have engaged in a game of cat and mouse, finding inventive ways to evade attempts by the police to block them.
警方在新德里十月份的一场要求选举委员会主席Gyanesh Kumar辞职的抗议活动中拘留了示威者。上周日，博拉女士爬过了第一层路障，试图到达指定的抗议地点。
Police detaining demonstrators during a protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, in New Delhi, in October. Last Sunday, Ms. Bora climbed the first layer of barricades, trying to reach the designated protest site.
当警察试图阻止抗议者时，她非常愤怒。经过一番拉扯，她设法跳到了另一边，随后警察的防线被突破了。
As police officers tried to hold the protesters back, she was fuming. After much push and pull, she managed to jump to the other side, and soon the police line was broken.
抗议者们拆开了路障，却只能面对另一层路障和更多的警察方队。警察们一个接一个地把抗议者拖上巴士，将他们送往拘留所。
Protesters dragged the barricades apart, only to face another layer of barricades and more columns of police. The police dragged protesters one by one onto buses, driving them away into detention.
博拉女士在两天内被拘留了六次；她说，最后一次，警察把她开走了几十英里，然后把她丢在一个工业区。
Ms. Bora was detained six times over two days; the last time, she said, the police drove her tens of miles and dropped her off in an industrial area.
“等你被释放回到德里市中心或抗议发生的地方时，你已经筋疲力尽，夜色已深，于是你无法再次参与抗议，”她说。“这是他们惯用的手段。”警察阻止一名试图从被拘留抗议者砸坏的巴士窗户跳出的示威者，地点在新德里。
“By the time you’re released and you come back to central Delhi or wherever the protest is taking place, you are so tired and night has set in, so you can’t again start the protest,” she said. “It’s part of their playbook.”Police officers stopping a demonstrator trying to jump out of a bus window broken by detained protesters in New Delhi.
一群志愿者开发了一款应用程序，用于追踪装载抗议者的巴士。通过追踪其路线，该应用程序能将他们与志愿司机联系起来，这些司机可以迅速将他们送回，同时提供法律和医疗援助。
One group of volunteers developed an app to track the buses protesters are packed into. By tracing their route, the app connects them with volunteer drivers who can rush them back, as well as legal and medical help.
“其中大多数人是学生、女性、首次参加抗议的人，他们不知道该怎么办，”25岁的拉吉夫·乔杜里说，他参与了该应用的开发。“我们建立了一套系统，告诉他们：‘别担心，我们在你们身后，我们会派些帮助过来。’”在拘留期间，抗议者们继续挑衅当局，用摄像头记录下混乱的局面。
“Most of the people are students, women, people protesting for the first time, and they don’t know what to do,” said Rajiv Choudhary, 25, who helped develop the app. “We created a system to say, ‘No worries, we are behind you, we are sending some help.’”In detention, the protesters continued to poke the authorities, training their cameras on the messy state of affairs.
“兄弟们，我们被关在这座警察局里，”一名年轻抗议者在Instagram视频中说，“但看看这个——这水有多脏，这地方有多破。”在抗议现场附近的路障处，年轻人被带走时，一些前来声援的老年人站了出来。周二，警察人员在新德里印度选举委员会办公室前设置路障。
“Guys, we have been detained in this police station,” says one young protester in an Instagram video“But look at this — how dirty the water, this area, is.”At the barricades near the protest site, as the young people were picked up, some older people who had come in solidarity stepped up. Police personnel placing barricades in front of the Election Commission of India’s office in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Arun Sankar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images尼沙·西杜，62岁，对警察大发雷霆。他们靠在路障上，盯着她看。
Arun Sankar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Nisha Sidhu, 62, gave the police an earful. They leaned on the barricades, staring at her.
“在他的演讲中，总理说‘教育你们的女儿’，”她说。“但当她们来到这里要求权利时，你们却试图让她们沉默？这看起来不像我们生活在一个自由的国家。”
“In his speeches, the prime minister says ‘educate your daughters,’” she said. “But when they come here to ask for their rights, you try to silence them? It doesn’t look like we live in a free country.”