Women "occupy the night streets" to protest reported mass molestation in India

Hundreds of women gathered in over 30 towns and cities across India, saying they were "occupying the night streets" to demand safety in public spaces after reports of the mass molestation of women in Bengaluru city on New Year's Eve.
From the capital New Delhi to Kolkata in the east, Chennai in the south and Mumbai in the west, activists, students, and professionals gathered at marches and street plays or sang songs and recited poetry on equality for women.
The participants, which also included many men, chanted slogans such as "Freedom, Freedom, Freedom!" and held banners saying "Take back the night. Break the silence. End the violence" and "Nobody asks what my molester was wearing."
"Since the age of 12, I have never felt comfortable or safe on the streets - day or night, but first time I have ever attended a march like this," said Anuradha Sinha, 37, a program manager at a e-commerce company.
"I have a 3-year-old daughter and given the situation we face today in terms of sexual harassment, I don't want my daughter to grow up and endure we have to go through every day. It has to change."

The marches coincided with marches being held around the world following US President...