‘National shame’, says Booker winner Geetanjali Shree as she expresses solidarity with wrestlers
3 min readBy Online Desk
NEW DELHI: The prime wrestlers protesting in Jantar Mantar demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over allegations of sexual harassment of girls wrestlers have gotten the help of International Booker winner Geetanjali Shree.
The Hindi-language novelist and short-story creator on Saturday expressed solidarity with the protesting wrestlers concurrently Brij Bhushan Singh took a swipe on the protesters saying, “You don’t get justice from Jantar Mantar.” “If you want justice, you have to go to the police and the court,” he was quoted as saying by research.
Geetanjali Shree is basically probably the most well-known of newest writers to have written publicly in help of the wrestlers, who’ve well-known time and again that their voices are being drowned out in favour of Singh because of he belongs to the ruling event, The Wire research.
“To obtain simple justice, our ace wrestlers, forsaking their work and security, have been forced to mount an agitation and to approach the Supreme Court. It is painful and a national shame,” Shree acknowledged in a assertion.
“What as a people have we done to ourselves? Justice should be available as a matter of course and not require agitation and knocking at the Supreme Court’s door,” Shree further well-known.
“Even as private a person as me feels constrained to come out of my solitude and condemn this atrocity. That it is to do with our ‘national treasures’, and to do with women, absolutely cannot let anyone be quiet,” she acknowledged.
NEW DELHI: The prime wrestlers protesting in Jantar Mantar demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over allegations of sexual harassment of girls wrestlers have gotten the help of International Booker winner Geetanjali Shree.
The Hindi-language novelist and short-story creator on Saturday expressed solidarity with the protesting wrestlers concurrently Brij Bhushan Singh took a swipe on the protesters saying, “You don’t get justice from Jantar Mantar.” “If you want justice, you have to go to the police and the court,” he was quoted as saying by research.
Geetanjali Shree is basically probably the most well-known of newest writers to have written publicly in help of the wrestlers, who’ve well-known time and again that their voices are being drowned out in favour of Singh because of he belongs to the ruling event, The Wire research.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“To obtain simple justice, our ace wrestlers, forsaking their work and security, have been forced to mount an agitation and to approach the Supreme Court. It is painful and a national shame,” Shree acknowledged in a assertion.
“What as a people have we done to ourselves? Justice should be available as a matter of course and not require agitation and knocking at the Supreme Court’s door,” Shree further well-known.
“Even as private a person as me feels constrained to come out of my solitude and condemn this atrocity. That it is to do with our ‘national treasures’, and to do with women, absolutely cannot let anyone be quiet,” she acknowledged.
