-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...
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Skimming the surfaces of sexism isn’t enough-Kishwardesai
-The Indian Express Gangrape speaks of the deep pathologies in the way young men are socialised. We should look within I hate item numbers,” exclaimed a (male) film actor in the midst of a talk show about the gangrape in Delhi that shook the nation. Immediately, there was a heated discussion about the uselessness of item numbers in the midst of Hindi films. Some spoke vehemently about how these songs were sexually...
More »Still critical, victim made to give statement again-Pritha Chatterjee
-The Indian Express The 23-year-old woman, battling for life in Safdarjung hospital after being tortured and gangraped on board a bus in south Delhi, had her statement recorded for the second time in a week on Tuesday. Doctors had to explain to her the need for a fresh statement. On Monday, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit wrote to union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde that the sub-divisional magistrate who had recorded the victim’s initial...
More »No excuses for this error of judgment -Vidya Subrahmaniam
-The Hindu From illegal detentions to wrong convictions, India’s terror prosecution is in dire need of attitudinal overhaul Only those condemned to await their own deaths will know what it is to be suddenly blessed with the elixir of life. On November 22, two Kashmiri men found themselves lifted out of the darkness of their death row cells into light, life and liberty after the Delhi High Court set aside their convictions...
More »A state of criminal injustice -Praveen Swami
-The Hindu The conviction rate for every kind of crime is in free fall, engendering a breakdown of law that no republic can survive Even criminals, back in 1953, seemed to be soaking in the warm, hope-filled glow that suffused the newly free India. From a peak of 654,019 in 1949, the number of crimes had declined year-on-year to 601,964. Murderers and dacoits; house-breakers and robbers — all were showing declining enthusiasm...
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