The United States has one of the highest death penalty executions in the world. But that does not stop people from committing murders. What makes anyone think that making rape a crime punishable by death will have any effects in India? Is it just an act, or more of a show of power, of a…
Violence against women will abate when we stop seeing them as properties
I want to talk about the increasing sexual violence against women in South Asia, especially India. This week an entire nation is coming to terms with a brutal gang-rape of a young woman in Delhi - a city which has been termed as the rape capital of India for the last few years. And we…