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...Tibetan activists nearby, who have arrived from all over India to join a 24-hour hunger strike. As the protesters use loudspeakers to relay pro-Tibet speeches, a couple of cops stroll by, ogling the rosy-cheeked Tibetan girls. Police and protesters share mutual disdain. "They hate us," laughs Rachna Dhingra, an activist with the International Campaign for Justice for Bhopal, which has been camping here since March to demand legal action against the corporation responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, which killed more than 3,000 people. "We're making the police earn their keep," Dhingra says. Life...
...Tibet supporters who have arrived from all over India to join a 24-hour hunger strike. A bunch of cops stroll by, eyeing rosy-cheeked Tibetan girls, who studiously ignore them. Disdain for the cops is a common theme among the demonstrators at Jantar Mantar. "They hate us," laughs Rachna Dhingra, an activist with the International Campaign for Justice for Bhopal, which has been camping here since March to demand legal action against the corporations responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. "We're making the police earn their keep." Day-to-day life at Jantar Mantar is not much...
...Outsiders might take the cacophony of complaints at Jantar Mantar as a sign of vitality in India's democracy, but many of the protesters - some of whom have gone unheeded for years, if not decades - are less sanguine. ICJB's Rachna Dhingra says having this space is better than nothing, but sees Jantar Mantar as a symptom of a flawed democracy. "If you want your voice heard, you must scream within these 500 meters," she says. "And even then, you can't be sure you'll be heard...
...Rachna K. Dhanda '91, a member of the AWARE peer education committee, a group not involved in the planning for AWARE week, said she attended a workshop last year in North House in which only "four to five" of the 10-15 participants were students...
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