India’s Rape Culture
India’s Crisis India is one of the most populated countries in the world, with around 1.3 billion people living in it. This population is male-dominated, with 112 boys born for every 100 girls. This is because of illicit sex-selection abortions, and a culture that prefers having sons over daughters. Instead …
Minor Girl Raped: Disbelief and Distress Looms the Chennai Gated Community
The community’s horror Over the past few months every news article we have come across is jam-packed with the names of many sexual predators. Sexual abuse, molestation, rapes; what else does our society breathe to see? Week after week these abuses grow and now we stand mourning for the 12-year-old child from Chennai who has faced the worst nightmares in the past 7 …
Five Years Later: Remember India’s Daughter?
Introduction Indian news is incomplete without at least one headline about rape and how it continuously plagues the women of India. Approximately five years ago, a tragedy seemed to spark the nation into wanting to change the course of society regarding the sexual assault of women. The 2012 Delhi gang-rape …
Protector Becomes Life Threat: Policeman Tries To Rape Six Year Old
The lack of safety for women and children in India and even the protectors of our society, policeman, have become a threat to women and children. A policeman tried to rape a 6-year-old. Lack Of Safety For Women And Children Though there are many laws to protect the interests of …
Acquittal of Mahmood Farooqui: How Does it Affect the Discourse of Rape in India?
Mahmood Farooqui, renowned Indian writer and director, was acquitted of rape charges on 25th September, 2017 by Justice Ashutosh Kumar of the Delhi High Court. Farooqui allegedly forced himself on a Columbia University researcher at his house in New Delhi in March 2015. The woman returned to the US soon …
Dera Chief’s Verdict: A Strong Message To Society And Stern Warning To Fake Godmen
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan. The story of this godman is as complicated as his name. The journey of his verdict is as big as his name. The soi-disant ‘multi-skilled guru’ was recently found guilty in two rape cases of 2002. A special CBI court in Rohtak (Haryana) sentenced him …
Rahim the Rapist: Patriarchy Speaks in His Favor
On 25 August 2017, the special CBI court in Haryana convicted the self – proclaimed Godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim of two rape cases in a judgment which was both controversial and a milestone. Controversial, because the Dera followers erupted in hostile and bloody protests, creating mayhem in the entire North …
The Lolita Effect: How Indian Culture Sexualises Young Girls
On Independence Day, a 12 year old girl on the way to school was raped by a middle aged man in Chandigarh. Even though this horrific incident is a malicious crime against humanity, this is not as shocking as it should be. India has a sordid history of rape of …
#Ain’tNoCinderella: A Campaign to Shut Down the Naysayers
What Triggered #Ain’tNoCinderella? Kristen Nannini quoted, “If you blame the rape survivor because their clothes were provocative, you must also blame the bank that was robbed because its contents were provocative.” Women are being targeted yet again, and this time they are ardent to shut the oppressors down. It all …
Court Denies Autonomy to 10-Year Old Rape Victim: Right to Privacy Vs. Protection of Potential Life
In a horrifying Chandigarh court decision, a 10-year old girl, raped multiple times and impregnated by her maternal uncle, was denied abortion on medical grounds. She was 26-weeks pregnant when the court took the decision. This decision was based on an opinion by a panel of doctors, who examined the …
