Jantar Mantar: India's protest streetNEW DELHI -- At one end of a backstreet in downtown Delhi a group of women hold a vigil to demand rapists be executed, while at the other acolytes of a spiritual leader arrested for sexual assault demand his release. Anyone seeking a glimpse of the bewildering range of issues animating voters in the world's largest democracy should stroll past parliament and head a few hundred yards north to Jantar Mantar. A stone's throw from India's corridors of power and fenced off with barricades, Jantar Mantar carries echoes of Speaker's Corner in London or the Occupy movement's takeover of McPherson Square in Washington. The mishmash of malcontents includes some who turn up day after day for years and others who camp out overnight to air their grievances. "The media is witness to the fact that I'm alive," Singh told AFP when asked what motivated him day after day.

Source: The China Post November 28, 2016 16:24 UTC