India, Oct. 18 -- On October 7, 2026, the body of 20-year-old Himashree Bora was found near railway tracks in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. Bora was returning home alone from Visakhapatnam aboard the Dibrugarh-bound Vivek Express on October 5. The case has allegedly turned up evidence of Bora being accosted by a man before boarding the train, phone calls with her family where she reported feeling unsafe, and accounts of overcrowding and drunk men in the compartment. Her death is among the hundreds of documented cases of violent crimes against women on India's railways in the last couple of years alone. It is also inextricably linked to a long history of attempts to control the ambulatory woman and a concurrent erasure of the ...