Tehzeeb Anis

Aug 22, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Yanis Iqbal |Tehzeeb Anis |Bhabani Nayak

Not a single day passes without several violent incidents being reported in the newspapers or on television. The nature of violence varies from place to place, but there is a common refrain beading the incidents together – man’s inhumanity to man. Truth to tell, violence, like pollution or unemployment, is a ubiquitous and inescapable fact of life on earth today. In India, there was a time when violence was largely an urban and lower-class phenomenon.

Aug 22, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Arun Mitra |Yanis Iqbal |Tehzeeb Anis |Sumanta Banerjee

The rape and murder of a young medico in R G Kar medical college in Kolkata has shaken not only the medical community but the people across sections of the society are outraged and are coming out on streets to demand stringent action against the culprits. They are unhappy over delay in the progress of investigations. The report that there was an effort to destroy the evidence has further irked the people.

Aug 22, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Yanis Iqbal |Tehzeeb Anis |Sumanta Banerjee |Santosh Kumar Mamgain

IntroductionWorld Health Organisation says that 8% to 38% of health workers suffer physical violence at some point in their careers. Recent surveys show that the percentage of doctors who experienced violence in workplace was 85% in China, 75% in India, and 47% in the US Assailants are mostly patients and their relatives.

Aug 22, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Yanis Iqbal |Tehzeeb Anis |zeenat khan |Bhabani Nayak

On August 9, 2024, a female doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, was brutally raped and murdered in a seminar room on the fourth floor, where she had gone to rest during her night shift. Her semi-naked body, splattered with blood, was discovered in the morning.

Aug 20, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Tehzeeb Anis |Bhabani Nayak |Moumita Alam |Sumanta Banerjee

Many women are struggling with the disturbing question: Am I a woman or simply a physical body? This is in response to recent events, especially the terrible rape and murder case of a trainee doctor in Kolkata. This unsettling questioning gets to the heart of being a woman in a society that so frequently treats us like things, stealing our identity and humanity.