Crimes Against Women

  • India’s Rape Culture: Urban versus Rural

    Ram Puniyani While the horrific rape of Damini, Nirbhaya (December16, 2012) has shaken the whole nation, and the country is gripped with the fear of this phenomenon, many an ideologues and political leaders are not only making their ideologies clear, some of them are regularly putting their foots in mouths also. Surely they do retract…

    Read More

  • Rape and the Ideology of the Religious Right

    In these days when we are flooded with reports of rape and other savage attacks against women in India, we thought people would stop, at least for the time being, blaming the women themselves for atrocities committed against them. But we were wrong. Barely a few hours after the ashes of the Delhi rape victim…

    Read More