rape

150 accused of raping a minor

Shahina KK

A shocking rape case goes to trial next week in Kerala

Married to My Rapist

Shruti Ravindran

There are places in India where rape is grounds for marriage. In some villages in Murshidabad, for example

The Angriest Eye

A Ranganayaki

Sexual assault cannot be explained away by geography, morality, emotionality, causality, and certainly not anodyne reportage that allows you to skim and move on, says A Ranganayaki, who knows

Doctors are surprised if the victim co-operates with them, for policemen wives cannot be raped by husbands, the defence tries to prove that the victim is a major because anyone over 16 is thought to have given consent, judges worry about marital prospects of victims…everyone expects this crime to fit into their picture