Treat a woman; a human!
Dhoom Forever? Boyssss and Wolves. (Where does the remedy lie?) Treat a woman; a human! How do you feel when you read a Rape Report? Do you check for religion?…
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Strict action against those accused of atrocities against women is necessary
The problem of atrocities against women has become very serious in today's society. This not only destroys the lives of victimized women but also has a negative impact on the…
An Open Letter to CJI on RG Kar Rape and Murder
To The Chief Justice of IndiaJustice DY ChandrachudSupreme Court, India Subject: Citizen Petition in the RG Kar Rape and Murder Case Asking for Effective Legal Directives Addressing Sexual Violence and…
The Patriarchal Politics of Security
On August 9, 2024, a female doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, was brutally raped and murdered in a seminar room on the fourth floor, where she had gone to rest…
Politically Tainted Lenses & RG Kar-Case!
What can be said about manner in which certain criminal cases are politicized? This aspect would bear some social relevance, if this appeared to really contribute to decrease in crime…
From Delhi Gang Rape and Murder to Kolkata Rape and Murder: The same exclusionary media discourse continues
by Dr. Ugen Bhutia and Dr. Maanvender Singh It is no coincidence that the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata's R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital on August…
Death Penalty Does Not Prevent Crimes Against Women
PUDR opposes the passage of The Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024, which amends the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, and the Protection of Children…
Protesters, Perpetrators, and ‘Tilottamas’
These are very strange days - I have fractured a bone in my foot and am largely confined to a chair at home, with the TV switched on for a…
R G Kar Rape: What Makes Us Angry
About two weeks ago, sitting in a State Government administrative building in Kolkata and discussing about the gruesome rape and murder of a Postgraduate Trainee Doctor at R G Kar…
On Desire, Power & Ethics: What RG Kar Rape Victim’s Name Going Viral On Google Tells Us About Our Society’s Moral Position on Women?
by Azmat Sadiq & Gunjan Das In the wake of nationwide protests over the brutal rape and murder of a resident doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College in Kolkata, there…
Calcutta, Where was your Conscience Then?
When a young Anglo-Indian mother named Suzette Jordan was picked up on a February night of 2012 from a watering hole on Park Street, Calcutta’s popular entertainment zone, and repeatedly…
Rape Culture: The Jig is Up!
Each year millions of Indians celebrate the killing of an Asura King by Hindu Goddess Durga for ten days. The Hindu festival, set in casteist narratives has us convinced that…
Is Violence Innate In Us?
Not a single day passes without several violent incidents being reported in the newspapers or on television. The nature of violence varies from place to place, but there is a…
The Patriarchal War on Indian Women
On August 9, 2024, a female doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, was brutally raped and murdered in a seminar room on the fourth floor, where she had gone to rest…
The Unsettling Question: Am I a Woman or Just a Physical Body?
Many women are struggling with the disturbing question: Am I a woman or simply a physical body? This is in response to recent events, especially the terrible rape and murder…
Roots of Rape
The World Population Review's Rape Statistics by Country (2024) highlights the widespread scope and severity of issues of rape and sexual violence against women, revealing the alarming frequency and nature…
Tomorrow Someone Will Rape You
(After Meena Kandasamy) Tomorrow someone will rape youAnd no one will careAnd they will give justifications-You are Dalit, so impureWho will rape you, huh! Tomorrow someone will rape youAnd it…
Arrival of Raksha Bandhan Amid Decay of Moral Values and Social Capital Illustrated by Crimes Against Female Doctor in Kolkata
"Raksha Bandhan" is primarily a Hindu festival celebrated by brothers and sisters in India, Nepal, Mauritius and among Hindus all-over the world wherever they are residing signifying a spiritual, moral…
Bengal’s Godmother of ruffians and racketeers
The recent case of the rape and killing of a female trainee doctor in the premises of Kolkata’s prestigious R.G. Kar Hospital has drawn all India attention to the murderous…
Ensure justice for the RG Kar Hospital deceased doctor NOW!
Arrest all accused and Initiate Action against police and hospital officials who violated the law and committed irregularities. ALIFA Calls for an end to the culture of violence in healthcare NOW:…
The Fight for Women’s Freedom
On 15th August 2024, India marks its 78th Independence Day. Six days earlier, a female doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, was brutally raped and murdered in a seminar…
The Main Question of Patriarchy: Can Men be Raped?
It was not many years ago that social media was flooded with images of young men across the country taking out micro-protests, threatening to go on what they called “marriage…
Manipur Violence and the Outrageous Assault on Women
We, the undersigned women's organisations and concerned individuals, are outraged at the brutality on the one hand and the impunity and brazenness of the perpetrators of the crime against women…
“Purity” and “Pollution” in Patriarchal Violence against Women
Violence against women continues unabated during conflicts! Rape as a weapon of war was gruesomely demonstrated during World War II, when both Allied and Axis armies committed rape as a…
From Past Till Present: Women Facing Sexual Violence By the Combatants During Wars and Armed Conflicts
Sexual violence and rape have always been used as the tactical and instrumental weapon of war against women. Unfortunately, women have always been the worst victims of such horrendous crimes…
Rape in Faridabad
An incident of a gruesome murder has come to the fore after the rape of a 7-year-old girl in Faridabad, Haryana. This case engulfs Ankhir village, where Ravinder alias Raja's…
Half of Sexual Crimes Related to Alcohol Consumption By Perpetrator
Nearly four years have passed, but Himachal Pradesh has still not recovered from the shock and agony felt at the time of a most terrible rape and murder of…
Protests against Pakistan Prime Minister’s comment linking rape to how women dress
Pakistan rights campaigners have accused the country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan of "baffling ignorance" after the former cricketer linked how women dress to cause a rise in rape cases. In…
Criminalize Marital Rape in India: Marriage is not a License to Rape
“When a stranger does it, he doesn't know me, I don't know him. He's not doing it to me as a person, personally. With your husband, it becomes personal. You…
Rape – A Criminal Manifesto
We speak of women empowerment and emancipation, yet it is a dictum of truism that being a man is an advantageous position in the society and so to say paradoxically…
A Priest in Cassock and the Santal Girl
Recently, when a 17-year-old Santal girl from an indigenous tribe in Rajshahi, Bangladesh went to cut grass for her family’s cattle in the pasture, she had no idea that danger…
Rape, the Shadow Pandemic in the time of Covid-19
What is wrong with some men that in the time of Covid-19 they are raping women of all ages? Rape, the most intimate of crimes is happening every day, everywhere…
The Begumganj (Bangladesh) Gang-rape and the Big Picture
I don’t know who drew this this rape-map of Bangladesh, but this is a telling geography of rape epidemic which as can be see here, has spread widely and reached…
Rape – A social evil seeking legal solutions
Women (idols) in India are worshipped, as they say, but the truth of Indian women is only known to herself. India has a sex ratio of 943 females/1000 males.[1] While…
Perplexing Extremes: The Chauvinistic Audacity To Rape And The Matrimonial Propensity To Discriminate
Hathras rape incident is not new to us and for the greater society it might not be shocking either. In India, the cold-blooded reality is the occurrence of rape every…
Exposing the Double Standards of India’s Upper and Middle Class: Perspective of Justice for Hathras victim
Introduction Again, the inhuman and horrible incident of Hathras has put the entire society ashamed as it has been the second occurrence of such cruelty and brutality against women in…
Hathras: yet another victim of the caste-driven rape culture in India
Even as the United Nations deliberated on the concrete actions that would advance gender equality for women and girls everywhere, marking the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration…
Rape Culture: Where Do We Stand?
The Caravan Magazine in August 2020, reported an incident from the month of June this year from Pokhari Village, Uttar Pradesh. Several upper-caste men hailing from the Thakur community (the…
Rape Raj: Shrouded in Shadow
A frenzied attack or bouts of insanity; “rape is rape”! Every 30 minutes one rape is crafted in India. A woman or a child…they are all prey of the rape…
How far is Hathras from your home?
“I know the alternative policy of adopting the line of least resistance. I am convinced that it will be ineffective in the matter or uprooting untouchability. The silent infiltration of…
Hathras Horror: NAPM Condemns the Rising Caste and Gender-based Violence in BJP ruled Uttar Pradesh & Gujarat
Punish the rapists & murderers of dalit women and other victims. Hold the Administration, Police and Political Nexus Accountable. Chief Minister of UP must resign for repeatedly failing to safeguard…
Candlelight vigil for Hadras rape victim held outside Indian passport and visa office in Surrey
South Asians activists came together on the evening of Friday, October 2, to raise voices against the recent gang rape of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh, India. The victim…
Rape of Hathras
Amazing, till about three days ago the news was that a Dalit girl has been raped and killed- as a matter of fact. It occurs every now and then, and…
Opposition must unite and act to provide an alternative
The attempt to stop Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi from visiting to Hatharas by the Uttar Pradesh government might have succeeded when they did not allow the convoy to move…
Haathras Atrocity: Savarna Men Must Speak Up Now!
The horrifically brutal and inhuman act of torture and rape perpetrated by Thakur men on a young Dalit woman in Haathras, Uttar Pradesh, tears at the soul and claws the…
Need for urgent and systemic changes in the treatment of survivors of violent sexual crimes in the Araria District Court, Bihar
Letter from Lawyers to the Hon’ble Chief Justice of Patna High Court and other Hon’ble Judges To Hon’ble the Chief Justice of Patna High Court and other Hon’ble Judges: Subject:…
The Unbecoming of Indian Women
"In rape cases it’s strange to me when people say, Well why didn’t you fight him? If you woke up to a robber in your home, saw him taking your…
Rhetoric of Victimisation in Delhi Crime and Unbelievable
The explosion of the #MeToo movement, the burgeoning discussion around sexual predators and the vulnerability of victims of sexual assault makes it even more pertinent to carefully and minutely examine…
Challenges faced by visually disabled women
Atrocities on women are increasing day -by- day and they are struggling to cope with gruesome attacks by male. Disabled women, especially visually disabled, are all the more disadvantaged and…
In search of the ultimate justice: Dismantling rape culture in India
20th March 2020, the Nirbhaya accused were hanged in the wee hours, at 5 o' clock, and we all woke up inhaling the sense of closure. Deep down it wasn’t…
Why India is turning into Rapistan? What measures we can take to control it?
Time and again rape incidents stir our conscience and sends chills down the spine after listening to brutal,insensitive assault on girl/women & the mental trauma they must have undergone. Although…
Bangladesh’s rape epidemic: Are these a case of deviant sexual behaviour or ‘System’s failure’?
In Bangladesh incidents of loot, plunder, enforced disappearances, breakdown of rule of law, extra-judicial killings, deaths and injuries in road accidents through reckless driving have become parts of daily news.…
A Year After Brutal Gang Rape and Murder in Kathua: Apathetic State Agenda, Regressive Policies and Escalating Violence Continued
Abstract In 2012 when Nirbhaya had been raped brutally in a moving bus in Delhi, the massive protest that went for several days could awake the then government which then…
End Political Impunity to Rapists
We strongly condemn the recent incidents of rape and sexual violence in the country: the rape of an 8-year old girl in Kathua, Jammu, of a 15-year old in Unnao,…
Fact Finding Report on Rape and Murder of an eight year old girl Asifa in Kathua(Jammu)
Pragatisheel Mahila Sangathan, Delhi sent a team to Kathua(Jammu region of J&K state) to Study the situation which has developed after the rape and murder of a little 8…
Justice For Asifa, Kathua Rape And Murder Victim
As a group of women from Jammu and Kashmir, we express great anguish over the unjustifiable delay in the investigations into the heinous rape and murder of a minor eight…
Alleged Gang Rape Of A Minor Girl By Security Force Personnel
On 10th of October, a case of gang rape on a minor girl from Patangi area of Koraput district of Odisha was reported in the media. The victim girl belongs…
From Mathura To Farooqui Rape Case: The Regressive Patriarchy Found its Way Back
Way back in 1972, a tribal girl was raped in custody by two constables in Desai Ganj Police Station in Maharashtra. The Supreme Court in Tuka Ram v State…
Of Rapists And Their ‘Righteous’ Supporters
The rapist is not the stranger in the night. Between pitaji ki maafi and pati ka haq most rapes in India are covered. A good portion of rapes in India…
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K.P Sasi is a film maker, writer, activist and cartoonist. He can be reached at [email protected]
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