Standing on their own: Cricket World Cup highlights drive to reclaim public space for Indian women | Emma John

As India’s most popular sport, cricket offers a forum to help change attitudes – educating men and empowering womenIf there was any better sight than India’s cricketers celebrating victory over Australia on Thursday, it was that of their supporters doing the same. For several hours, the nerves of the 35,000 spectators in Mumbai’s DY Patil Stadium – most wearing Indian blue – had jangled in sympathy. As the home team booked themselves into Sunday’s Cricket World Cup final, the TV cameras picked out the men and women in the stands caught up in the flood of delight and relief. It was more than a moment of triumph – it was a vision of solidarity.But let’s leave the stands, now, and head to the city streets of Indore, the largest city in the state of Madhya Pradesh. It’s here that a pair of Australia players were sexually harassed as they walked from their hotel to a nearby cafe, the morning after last week’s game against England. They reported the incident, there was an immediate investigation, and a man was shortly arrested: a swift, proactive piece of police work. Which begged the question: how much interest would the authorities have shown if it had happened to anyone other than two high-profile, foreign athletes? Continue reading...

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