In 2011, an anti-corruption activist began a hunger strike in Delhi, inspiring protests all over the country to pressure the central government into accountability. The following year, a twenty-three-year-old woman was raped and murdered by several men on a bus in Delhi; it wasn’t an isolated incident, but it received national and international media attention, and protests erupted again over women’s safety in public. A year later, the streets were filled with Pride marches when the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a colonial-era law that criminalized gay sex. And a year after that, in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), headed by Narendra Modi, won the general election in a landslide victory, ending a decade of dynastic, stagnant rule by the Indian National Congress.
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