New from SAPIENS Over the past two decades, the subway system has reshaped social relations in India’s densely populated capital—especially for women, who continue to face everyday violence in public spaces.
of Anjali Singh, who was killed on January 1 when her scooter was hit by a car and her body dragged for an hour.
Street vendors and commuters gather around metro stations like this one, creating new public spaces across the city of Delhi.“Haryana is not good, not good for girls. Men are not good, even boys. They stare at me, sometimes they vent at me. I can’t do anything,” she explains. “Vent” is typical Delhi-speak to describe when someone lashes out in a stream of verbal abuse, erupting like a volcano. On the street, they see her as a species rather than a person.
As state-sponsored infrastructure, the Delhi Metro has given women, in particular, a new way into the city, as a site of purpose, aspiration, and pleasure.On the Yellow Line, a woman sits nursing an infant not more than 20 days old. We are not in a ladies’ coach but in a mixed one where, on this morning, the ratio of men to women is about 20-to-1. A glass panel with a map of the Metro system is all that separates me from the woman. I can tell she is not poor but also not well off.
At the northern end of the Yellow Line, a dusty path traverses block after block of low-income housing. I walk for an hour and see nothing resembling central Delhi. This is a working-class community that all of a sudden feels included in the city, connected to this gleaming train. Women living in this neighborhood have stated that they feel safe to venture on the Metro alone, and for the first time will go towithout their husbands.
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