‘I will never register myself’: Women from MP respond to CM’s plan to track them for their safety
Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s statement on Tuesday was one of the latest examples of Indian State institutions patronising women. Silvia Peter at work in Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh. | Photo: Facebook/Silvia Peter
A working woman in Madhya Pradesh’s Itarsi town, Silvia Peter is familiar with the experience of feeling unsafe. Since 2017, when she co-founded an organisation to educate women and children from Adivasi brick worker communities, she has received multiple threats – both open and veiled – from men who did not want her out in the field.