Citizens’ protests, fuelled by anger and social media, enter fifth week

KOLKATA: The citizens' stir against the brutal rape-murder of an RG Kar junior doctor, which enters its fifth week on Friday, has already notched up several firsts in its four-weeks-and-counting life. "Unprecedented" and "unpredictable" are two adjectives that can describe the street protests, which have been characterised by their depth (the numbers hitting the streets), their spread (across locations), their apolitical nature and their spontaneous sustainability, surprising even for Kolkata, a city associated with street protests. Wednesday evening's protests were, …