Sexual assault against women in India, particularly Uttar Pradesh, seems to be taking turn for the worst as rapists become emboldened by the lack of police investigation and political sympathy in favour of the criminal. In the last fortnight four women have been raped and hung from trees by their own dupatta (scarf) or sari.
These crimes are outrageous enough but even more so are the continuous foot-in-mouth statements from the chief minister of the state, his father and a growing chorus of male chief ministers from other states. I watched a TV discussion on NDTV (channel 511 on Sky) where a representative of the UP government repeatedly stated ‘what about men who are wrongly accused?’
Mumbai used to be one of the safest cities for women… in Mumbai women can stay out late without worries. These are a couple of comments I have heard repeatedly on the near blanket coverage of the recent Mumbai gangrape story. A 22 year old photojournalist out on an assignment with a colleague was violently sexually assaulted by five men in the early evening of a central Mumbai area, albeit an abandoned mill.
A wake up call or is there a collective selected memory loss?
News that Dubai has pardoned the 24 year old Norweigian woman’s 16 month sentence after reporting being raped has come as welcome news. The story became a PR disaster for the country with many newspapers and TV channels musing how to digest the glitzy image Dubai portrays with the sheer daft misogyny of the Norweigian woman’s ordeal.
The names and places change but the sad fact is that I am war fatigued and rather disillusioned and skeptical of Western governments justification of their desire to intervene in Syria. No one listens to the general public and there is no alternative political party to vote for, only war-mongering ones. The Assad regime is no longer fashionable and Britain is on the side of the rebels. Except the British government’s mouthpiece, the BBC, casually mentions towns that are captured by the rebels and the death toll of civilians at the hands of the rebels – 67 was the number of civilian deaths in ONE town in the last news report I listened to and they are meant to be the goodies!!
The old global political alliances seem to be reassuring us that nothing has changed in their mentality since the Cold War.
This week”s nomination is for Nick Ross, a mister nobody that used to present Crimewatch on BBC1. He has written a book on crime since a career presenting must be the same as clocking up degree hours in criminology. The book is being serialised in the Sunday Mail, who reads that??
Delhi Meri Hai… ‘Delhi is mine’ ad campaign currently running on the radio.
The awful Delhi gang rape at the end of last year cast a thick cloud over city and its residents. Regular Chatterboxes will remember I spend half the year in this crazy/amazing city. When I arrived back in the first week of January the media and locals were soul searching and digesting the gravity of what happened.
It’s now the end of February and I have listened to various radio stations every morning whilst doing my yoga moves
Taliban Plus is how an editor of a women’s magazine in India described Indian mentality towards women. In fact she goes on to declare Indian mentality as worse than the Taliban as at least with the Taliban you know where you stand.
This outrage at Indian society’s attitude towards women has been drawn into the spotlight once more
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This week”s nomination is for Nick Ross, a mister nobody that used to present Crimewatch on BBC1. He has written a book on crime since a career presenting must be the same as clocking up degree hours in criminology. The book is being serialised in the Sunday Mail, who reads that??
He has likened women
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