Anasuya Sengupta in Berkeley!

Ok, this is not a college update, but when I came across this event info on the mailing list, I couldn't stop thinking about Anasuya's efforts in training the Karnataka Police Force to be sensitive towards gender issues. Women's empowerment needs strong state support but the police in India have so far been ineffective in preventing crime against women so much as to be thought of being tacitly supporting further disempowerment and humiliation. Police needs to be sensitives in handling cases involving crime against women so that women begin trusting the state as their guardians.