Just days after Jyoti Singh’s killers were sentenced to death by the Supreme Court, on May 11, a similar case of gang rape and murder was reported from Rohtak in Haryana. To what do we owe this spate in sexual crimes against women and even little girls some as young as two months old ? Protectionism says women need protection as matter of right as a citizen, but because they are weaker and more subordinate than men. Some other details reveal the kind of world Indian men and women really inhabit socially and politically. Many women victims of these feel they are set on them by political parties they have been criticising because they seem directed particularly against women journalists and liberal feminists.

Source: Hindustan Times May 16, 2017 08:05 UTC