“I am surrounded by a deafening silence”
Guest Author | 11 December 2023 | Maktoob Media
These days I find it suffocating in my college. As Indraprastha College for Women enters its 100th year, I stand in front of those saffron walls in sadness, a sense of defeat.
This is the oldest women’s college that pioneered women’s education and provided a space for women to speak, think and be well-rounded individuals since 1924. I always wanted to be like the women who studied here- the ones who dug their swimming pool when the government denied them a permit, the ones who actively took part in the Indian Independence movement despite rations of rice and wheat being cut off in their hostels.