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At 9pmon Wednesday, men, women, and others, old and young, switched off the lights in their homes and joined a candlelight vigil at Karunamoyee in KolkatasSalt Lake to demand justice forAbhayathe 31-year-old doctorwho wasraped andmurderedon August 9 in a state-run hospital in the city.As.
In between slogans of we want justice and justice for RG Kar,and vigorous renditions of WeShallOvercome in English, Hindi and Bengali, I asked the protestors at the vigil this question...
But there were more considered replies, too, reflecting the shock and horror of the young doctorsrape and murder,as well asthe disillusionment and disenchantment thats descended upon a section of peopleinWest Bengalafterthe unravelling of the RG Kar incident...
The attempt to shield him, instead of acting against him for failing to even file a police complaint after the rape and murder, and the quiet burial of earlier complaints of corruption against him, could not have happened without Mamatas knowledge...
Adding fat to the fire blazing against Mamata todayarememoriesof her rise to powerof the agitations for justice at Nandigram and Singur against the Leftgovernmentin the state,ofthe promise that Mamata held out for real paribartan(change)...
