Rama Lakshmi and Anup Kaphle January 8, 2013 The death of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student who was savagely beaten and gang-raped on a moving bus in New Delhi last month has spurred widespread protests and debate about violence against women. Here are some other past high-profile rape cases in India, as reported in Indian news […]
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The Historical Journey Of Rape Laws In India
By Himanshi Nagpal Rape is one of the most common and under reported crimes against women in India. It is carried out in different ways and cuts across various social structures. As a result, there are also classifications of rape for instance, ‘landlord rape’, ‘caste rape’, ‘rape by those in authority’, ‘class rape’, ‘police rape’ […]
Rape of Draupadi: Why Indian democracy has failed women
Indians pray to goddesses in temples, but “abuse women in the domestic sphere”, notes author. Horrific crimes are not new to India. The capital of the largest democracy in the world, New Delhi, has been conquered many times over by successive waves of invaders – their paradigms of conquest were always different. On August 15, […]