The next morning, during the ten-minute lunch break, instead of eating their rice in silence, the women began to move. Elara stood up from her machine. Priya stood up from hers. Then Anjali. Then three more. In silence, they walked to the door of Mr. Kall’s office. Thirty-seven women gathered outside, their shadows merging into a single, solid shape on the concrete floor.
“Do you see this?” he said. “Article 20 of our Constitution. It says: ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.’ No employer’s rule can take that away.” freedom of association
That was the first association.