segregation no solution

@bedatri tweets


#EndSH #SafeCityPledge #RingTheBell
#SegregationNoSolution

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  1. Time to get off now :( I shall tweet in detail in a bit.phone net sucks #endsh
  2. "@shivtan: “@vivekachauhan: Im finding that men get very squirmish if you stare right back at them. fun!" #endsh me too!

  3. “@vivekachauhan: Im finding that men get very squirmish if you stare right back at them. fun!" #endsh yes im trying to keep count
  7. 'dhakka toh lagega hi.bheed ka time hain' #endsh
  9. Really crowded and women have taken to standing in the tiny sliver of space between ladies' seats #endsh
  10. Little funny how ppl are eyeing me with suspicion #endsh
  11. Cranky network.please to bear with me.#endsh @BLANK_NOISE
  12. Amidst much cribbing,I get up and stand.'yeh toh ladies' seat Nahin hain' murmurs.the real thing starts now #endsh


  14. Conductor thinks I am a journalist.sad to know I am not.'rule hain madam,humein kya pata' bus is filling up.more women.#endsh
  17. @BLANK_NOISE still on a general.strong feeling I will either need to fight or shift #endsh


  1. Actually no concept of a general seat.ladies seat or 'admiyon ka seat' (men's seat).there r 8 ladies' seats and ard 22 'men's seats' #endsh
  2. Bus still has a bit to start.I get off and loiter,no woman in sight.trying to tweet pic #endsh
  3. Empty bus because this is where route starts.I take general seat,promptly asked to take a ladies' seat #segregation #endsh
  4. The bus depot has just another woman.she takes the same bus.sometimes there are more women,mostly with husbands #endsh

चार Action Heroes का सफ़र

Featuring: 
 #ActionHero Shivangini Tandon
#ActionHero Viveka Chauhan
#ActionHero Bedatri Dutta
#ActionHero Renuka
No.of Location: 4 ( one with each Action Hero)
City: Delhi
Time: 5-7pm
Date: April 11

 Plot: As part of International Anti Street Harassment Week, Breakthrough and were in the midst of an all day twitter event examining the myth of security via gender and class based segregation. We're for inclusion. Each Action Hero selected a bus or metro route and chose to sit in the general compartment not the ladies only section. They tweeted their experience live.

 #SegregationNoSolution #SafeCityPledge #RingTheBell #endSH 
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Shivangini Tandon: @shivtan
Metro. Green Park- Nizammuddin
The Delhi Metro is a relatively new public transport system in New Delhi.  My experience during the tweetathon was positive. While many men did stare I did not feel threatened at any point. When I interviewed a woman who travels in the metro often she told me she chooses to use the women's compartment out of convenience because it allows for place to stand or sit, not because it makes her feel safer. At some point, during rush hour, a man even apologised to me for not being able to give me enough space to stand. I also believe that it is helping create a new social etiquette for behaviour in public spaces. New spaces change behaviour. The sanitary, orderly environment that the metro creates is unique to the normal chaos that a large Indian city typically offers.
It did feel like a war zone and we were deliberately putting ourselves in the line of fire to test our defense                                                           
" The as I decided to wade through the men to get to the gate a man apologised for being too close #wow #EndSH 


@shivtan live tweets here

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Action Hero Bedatri Dutta: @bedatri
Bus Number

 It is of course easier to compartmentalize our daily lives into gendered sections- this is for women, that is for men. Be it in domestic spaces or even public spaces. The public transport system, for example, is modeled on this kind of segregation and one often considers this to be the best way of avoiding a conflict between the two sexes. Yes, that does make life simpler sometimes- i stick to my pink compartment, you stick to the rest of the train,and life goes on. But what does it really say of ourselves as a society if we cant even co-exist within the same space without a conflict? Why do we necessarily need to alienate and why cant we make an effort to co-exist through mutual respect? Why should i stick to one compartment or sit myself in one of the eight seats in a bus that seats thirty people? It was with these questions in my head that I decided to sit in the "general" seating area in a DTC bus. What was most amusing was the appropriation of a "general" space into being a "male" space. The general seats are considered to be "aadmiyon ka seat" and the decision of a woman to not stick to her "allotted space" is essentially seen to be an aberration. It didn't get violent or abusive but the disdain and disapproval was made amply evident by my co-passengers.It isnt a comfortable position to be in when one pushes the envelope and steps out of one's allotted space but how long can one really lay out one's life in terms of eight seats, one compartment and a strip of platform marked out in pink?

 @bedatri live Tweets here




 * Action Hero Viveka Chauhan 


  1. The ride on the Delhi Metro general compartment brought me back to how occupying space as a woman in Delhi is an effort. One has to push ones boundaries in a space where pushing boundaries is not a norm.
    That day on the metro I was made painfully aware of my presence there not as a human being, but as a woman. I noticed that every woman walking into the metro would shrink into a shell and just wait to reach there destination while every male eye bore into her skin from every direction-challenging, curious, lusty at times. But at the end of that ride I could say that I had lost my inhibitions and that I would not think twice the next time I travel by metro to use the general compartment

    @vivekachauhan live tweets here

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