At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 2024, 77 years after Indian independence, thousands of women from all walks of life demanded justice and true freedom from the struggles of patriarchy. The brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has shocked the nation to the core and forced everyone to speak up against the rising crimes against women and the systemic failure that has delayed justice not only in this case but in every other case in the past.