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The first stages of work are under way: In Delhi police now offer free 10-day self-defense programs for women, and they've fanned out through the city to give "doorstep training" to larger groups. In the southern state of Kerala, all-female police units, the Pink Police, have been assembled to patrol the streets and respond to crisis calls from women.
I confess to a certain ambivalence about all this. Government-arranged gender segregation? Is this the only way to begin making women as comfortable as men in public spaces? But then I see the hashtag campaigns of Indian women too, and am cheered: #TakeBackTheNight, a global effort that banded audacious women in India to walk outside together after dark. #MeetToSleep, which organized 600 women across the country last year to safely spend a night sleeping outdoors, as Indian men often like to do.
我承認，對于這一切，我的內心有些矛盾。政府安排的性別隔離？這是讓女性能夠在公共場所像男性一樣自在行動的唯一方法嗎？但之后我又看見印度女性打出的活動口號標簽，因而感到欣慰：“奪回黑夜”是一場全球范圍的活動，將勇敢的印度女性聯合起來，在夜里一起外出。“睡眠集會”活動去年在全國組織了六百名女性，安全地在戶外度過一晚，就像印度男性常常喜歡做的那樣。
