7月20日，纳夫基兰·纳特（Navkiran Natt）和她的伴侣前往新德里的市政厅办理结婚手续。然而，他们到达现场时发现局势十分紧张：警察正在驱散由年轻人发起的、旨在抗议议会行为的示威活动。由于设置了路障，市政厅的工作人员以及这对夫妇的婚礼见证人都迟到了。
On July 20, Navkiran Natt and her partner set out for the magistrate's office in New Delhi to get married. They arrived to find a tense situation, with police gathering to break up a youth-led march on Parliament. Office staff — and the couple's wedding witnesses — were running late due to barricades.
抗议者遭到了安全部队的激烈抵抗；警方使用了警棍、催泪瓦斯和发射弹丸的霰弹枪，导致多人受伤，许多人被逮捕。
The protesters were met with heavy resistance from security forces, who had deployed batons, tear gas and pellet-firing shotguns, leading to injuries and mass detentions.
不到三个月后，即10月10日，纳特清晨离开家，她在被封锁的新德里市内四处寻找可以参加的抗议活动。她对德国之声（DW）表示：“这场抗议活动的意义不在于有多少人能够赶到‘Jantar Mantar’（新德里市中心的一个抗议地点），而在于：尽管有这么多路障和政府的暴力行为，人们仍然愿意走出家门来参与抗议。”
Less than three months later, on October 10, Natt left home early in the morning and spent the day crisscrossing the locked-down Indian capital looking for a protest she could join. "The success of this protest is not how many people will reach Jantar Mantar," she told DW, referring to the protest site in central New Delhi. "It's that even after all this barricading and state violence, people are leaving their homes to join."
“‘CJP’（CJP）最初只是一个讽刺性的网络运动，起因是印度最高法院院长苏里亚·坎特（Surya Kant）在一次随意的言论中将失业的年轻人称为‘蟑螂’。这个名字其实是对印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪领导的‘印度人民党’（Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP）名称的一种讽刺。”纳特说道。
India: Protesters jailed amid election row What are these protests about? The CJP began as a satirical online movement after the chief justice of India, Surya Kant, referred to unemployed young people as "cockroaches" in an offhand remark. The name is an ironic riff on the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
作为“全印度学生协会”（All India Students’ Association）的主席，这个协会隶属于印度共产党（马克思列宁主义解放派，CPI-ML）的学生组织，纳特曾在街头躲避警察的追捕、翻越路障、在拘留车内高喊口号，并与其他抗议者及媒体代表一起参加新闻发布会。
Bora has run through the streets to dodge police officials, climbed barricades in the face of security personnel, shouted slogans from detention vans and addressed press conferences alongside CJP spokespersons and others. They are the president of the All India Students' Association, the student wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML).
“在这段极其令人失望、充满恐惧和暴政的时期，人们会从任何可能的来源中寻找希望……如果这些人还在坚持抗争，那么我们或许也有理由继续抗争。”纳特告诉德国之声。“这是你对人民应尽的责任。”她补充道。
"In extremely disappointing, fearful, tyrannical times, people try to gather hope from whatever source they can … If these people are fighting, then probably we can also fight," Bora told DW. "It is a responsibility that you owe to people," they added.
大量女性走上街头参加抗议活动。这场由“Cockroach”组织领导的抗议活动，正值女性及LGBTQ+群体呼吁更多自主权的时刻——此前，新德里发生了一起针对17岁女孩的集体强奸案，这一事件再次将印度的女性安全问题推到了公众视野的中心。
Women out on the streets in large numbers The Cockroach-led demonstrations also come at a time when women and members of the LGBTQ+ community are calling for greater autonomy for women in the aftermath of the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in New Delhi in late September, placing the issue of safety in India back into the spotlight.
根据印度国家犯罪记录局的数据，2024年共登记了441,534起针对女性的犯罪案件，平均每天发生1,210起。专家指出，这些官方统计数据仅能部分反映性别暴力问题的真实情况。
According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 441,534 cases of crimes against women were registered in 2024, averaging 1,210 cases per day. Experts say these official statistics can only give a partial account of gendered violence.
尽管在街头遭遇警方的性骚扰以及网络上的恶意攻击，但这些带头抗议的女性及性别酷儿群体坚决拒绝被视作受害者。
But despite facing sexualized backlash from police on the streets and from online mobs, the women and genderqueer people leading the movement reject being cast as victims.
“‘Beti Bachao’（拯救女儿）这样的口号对这一代人来说已经不再适用了。我们希望人们能将我们视为具有政治意识、独立自主的个体，”活动家卡维塔·克里希南（Kavita Krishnan）对德国之声（DW）表示。
"The "beti bachao" [save the daughter] thing just doesn't cut it with this generation. It is a very specific ask: see us as political beings, free beings," activist Kavita Krishnan told DW.
“‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’（拯救女儿，教育女儿）是印度人民党（BJP）于2015年推出的旗舰计划。”
"Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao" (Save the Daughter, Educate the Daughter) is a flagship BJP government program launched in 2015.
抗议活动已成为她们的日常生活的一部分。如今，古尔梅哈尔·考尔（Gurmehar Kaur）的一天通常从锻炼或瑜伽课程开始，而她的日子往往以印度青年大会（Indian Youth Congress）的律师帮助她从警方拘留中获释而结束。
Protest as daily life These days, Gurmehar Kaur's day starts like any other — a workout or a yoga class — and often ends with Indian Youth Congress' lawyers getting her released from police detention. "Resistance can't be a separate event … a big day, and then you go back to your regular life," she told DW.
“抵抗不能只是一次性的事件，不能只是‘特殊的一天’，之后就再回到日常生活中去，”她对德国之声说道。这位29岁的作家著有《The Young and the Restless: Youth and Politics in India》一书，过去十年大部分时间都处于公众的关注之下。今年，她加入了印度主要反对党——国大党（Congress）的青年组织，该党的办公室距离抗议活动的中心“Jantar Mantar”仅咫尺之遥。
The 29-year-old author of "The Young and the Restless: Youth and Politics in India" spent a better part of the last decade in the public eye. This year, she joined the youth wing of India's main opposition party, The Congress, whose offices are located a stone's throw away from Jantar Mantar, the hub of the last wave of protests. Kaur said her political association has given her access to resources that can support the movement, offering a safety net for protesters "regardless of their political affiliation."
考尔表示，她的政治协会为她提供了可支持运动的资源，为抗议者提供安全网，“不论其政治派别如何。”
At a time when authorities are cracking down on CJP protesters, she said opposition members like her have a duty to fulfill: "Show up, put your body on the line."
在当局正在打击CJP抗议者之际，她说像她这样的反对派成员有责任履行：“出现，挺身而出。”可见性的代价 但出现往往要付出代价，尤其是对女性和酷儿抗议者而言。
Price of visibility But showing up often comes with a cost, especially for women and queer protesters. Kaur explained how male colleagues often "feel quite elated when their photos are in the media."
考尔解释说，男性同事常常“看到自己的照片登上媒体时会感到非常兴奋。”然而对她来说，“关注等于死亡和强奸威胁、羞辱和辱骂。”“如果一名女性领导抗议，第一波攻击就针对她的性取向，”她说。社交媒体图片显示，女性抗议者在与警方冲突中衣服被撕。
However, for her, "attention is equal to death and rape threats and humiliation and abuse." "If a woman is leading the protest, the first attack is on her sexuality," she said. Social media images have shown women protesters with their clothes torn during clashes with police. Delhi officials have denied allegations of manhandling, adding that women protesters were treated with "dignity."
德里官员否认了粗暴对待的指控，并称女性抗议者受到了“尊严”对待。学生领袖博拉反驳了警方的说法，称只有少数女性警力可用于处理大量女性抗议者。“几名女性抗议者前来保护我，防止我被拘留，”他们说。
Student leader Bora refuted the police's claim, saying that a small number of female personnel were available to handle a large number of female protesters. "Several women protesters came to protect me and prevent me from getting detained," they said.
当局已对一名指控一名高级德里警察性骚扰的记者立案，该指控依据的是一项旨在防止针对表列种姓和表列部落成员犯罪的印度法律。他们表示，她本人的指控正在接受调查。
Authorities have registered a police case against a journalist who accused a senior Delhi police officer of sexual harassment under an Indian law meant to prevent crimes against members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. They say her own allegations are under investigation.
互联网上也充斥着将女性抗议者编辑进抗议照片中的AI生成性化图片。
The internet was also flooded with AI-made, sexualized images of women protesters edited into protest photos.
为何活动人士称该策略正在失效 这并未阻止抗议者在被当局拘留后的第二天仍走上街头。
Why activists say the tactic is failing This has not prevented protesters from taking to the streets even the day after being detained by authorities.
“他们不知道自己在面对什么，”活动人士克里希南说，指的是政府对示威者的打压。
"They don't know what they're dealing with," activist Krishnan said, referring to the government's crackdown on demonstrators.
她说，当局以为性羞辱会吓退女性，但“这一代人不认为……性暴力是件羞耻的事。”
She said authorities assume sexual humiliation will scare women off, but "this is not a generation that thinks of… sexual violence as being something shameful."
她曾站在2012年“尼尔比哈”轮奸案后示浪潮的最前沿，当时“绞死强奸犯”等口号出现在公共场合。然而她说，这一次的愤怒“不会关乎男性式的荣誉展示”，而是关乎“尊严和自由……女性在每个国家都面临各种问题，印度女性也不例外”，她补充道。
She was at the forefront of demonstrations after the 2012 "Nirbhaya" gang rape, where slogans like "Hang the rapists" were seen in public. This time, however, she said the anger "is not going to be about masculine displays of honor." It is about "dignity and freedom ... Women face all kinds of problems in every country, and Indian women are no different," she added.
克里希南表示，青年主导的抗议是更广泛的全球“文明性、文化民族主义”浪潮的一部分，这种浪潮利用性别和保护的语言——无论是保护女儿、家庭还是传统——来动员支持，对抗少数族裔、移民和跨性别者。
Krishnan said the youth-led protests are part of a wider global wave of "civilizational, cultural nationalism," which uses gender and the language of protection, whether of daughters, families or tradition, to rally support against minorities, immigrants and trans people.
“听听唐纳德·特朗普、维克托·欧尔班或德国选择党（AfD）的言辞，是一模一样的，”她指着美国和欧洲的政治说道。“如果你看看印度正在发生的事，或许能更好地理解你自己国家正在发生的事。”
"You listen to the rhetoric of Donald Trump or Viktor Orban or the Alternative for Germany (AfD). It is the same," she said, referring to politics in the United States and Europe. "If you look at what's happening in India, you may be able to better understand what's happening in your country."
她说，这些年轻的印度人拒绝被蒙蔽。他们“在为一种面向未来的语言、一种充满希望的语言而战”。
These young Indians, she said, are refusing to be taken in. They are "fighting back for a language of the future, a language that has hope."