-The Hindu Business Line Indian society is yet to acknowledge the existence of rape culture – a set of beliefs that condones aggression on women. Perhaps no other event in India has received more international attention in the recent past than the brutal gang rape in Delhi and its tragic aftermath. The issue is widely covered in the Western media; the latest addition is the channel interview of the rape victim’s male...
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"I Fought For My Life…And Won" –Sohaila Abdulali
-kracktivist I was gang raped three years ago, when I was 17 years old. My name and my photograph appear with this article..in 1983, in Manushi. I grew up in Bombay, and am at present studying in the USA. I am writing a thesis on rape and came home to do research a couple of weeks ago. Ever since that day three years ago, I have been intensely aware of the misconceptions...
More »What's wrong with Asaram? Holds Delhi victim responsible for gang-rape
-Bhaskar News Bharatpur/ New Delhi: Self-proclaimed godman Asaram Bapu is in the center of a major controversy after he held the Delhi victim responsible for the barbaric sexual assault on her by a group of sex men. "Only 5-6 people are not the culprits. The victim daughter is as guilty as her rapists... She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop... This could have saved her dignity...
More »Delhi gang-rape victim's friend: Cops wasted 30 minutes arguing about jurisdiction
-The Times of India While Nirbhaya's brutal gang-rape horrified the nation, the events that followed the crime revealed shocking callousness on the part of both citizens and the police. In his first public statement, Nirbhaya's friend said on Friday that the two of them lay naked on the road for more than two hours with people stopping to look at them and then moving on. "My friend was grievously injured and bleeding...
More »Court Takes Note of Zee Editor's Complaint Against Jindal
-Outlook In a significant development, a Delhi court today took cognisance of Zee News Editor Sudhir Chaudhary's criminal defamation complaint against Congress MP Naveen Jindal and 16 officials of his firm Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL). "The cognisance of offence under section 499 (defamation) read with 34 (common intention) of the IPC is taken... Keeping in view the law laid down in the provisions of CrPC and the judgement of the...
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