India hangs its head in shame once again as a terrible tapestry of political power and gender harassment unspools in Chandigarh. “I’m lucky,” she said, “it seems, to not be the daughter of a common man, because what chance would they have against such VIPs? I’m also lucky because I’m not lying raped and murdered in a ditch somewhere.” Her account should shake us to our core. Millions of underprivileged women face sexual harassment daily without any recourse to institutional justice. Even if a complaint is registered, the evidence in many cases is compromised by the police, which weakens the case against the perpetrators.

Source: dna August 07, 2017 02:26 UTC