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Tuk-tuk warriors: the abuse victims who rode to women’s rescue in lockdown India

Tuk-tuk warriors: the abuse victims who rode to women’s rescue in lockdown India

ANNIE BANERJI As the coronavirus kept virtually everyone at home, Talat Jahan was busily crisscrossing the slums in her black-and-yellow rickshaw - on a lockdown mission to help women suffering abuse and hunger in her central Indian city. Jahan, 29, a domestic abuse survivor, and about a dozen other women who recently trained to become Bhopal's first female rickshaw drivers ferried food and other essentials to hard-hit city families during India's months-long lockdown. But often, Jahan said, she and her fellow volunteers from the Gauravi one-stop crisis centre were simply a sympathetic ear for women cooped up with their abusers…
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