Pragya, who is working for an NGO in Bhopal, writes about the first three days of the sit-in against the MP government for the rights of those who survived the world’s most horrible chemical disaster.

Yet even though the words are different the message is still the same. Through their words and movements, the women are speaking to themselves, to each other, to people whose deaf ears they are trying to reach: “We may be poor, we may be sick, we may be tired, but we have the right to live.” The right to live with clean water, with jobs, with healthy children, things many of us take for granted. The right to be happy, even if it is by singing about a girl telling a boy to stop teasing her.