The core contention in the debate lies in whether sub-classification is a necessary tool for addressing intra-caste inequalities or a divisive force that could fragment the solidarity of Dalit community.
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This judgement comes at a time when massive protests are taking place in Bengal and across India demanding justice for the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
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This issue of Outlook is our attempt at a ‘Herstorical’ approach, where we have tried to listen again to stories of rapes as an act of remembrance and to bring to the surface again what has been submerged
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Public outburst of anger over the rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata has left the Mamata Banerjee government puzzled, worried
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After the initial uproar over the many rapes during the violence between Kuki and Meitei communities in Manipur, investigations now seem to have hit the snooze button.
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At least five tribal girls in Sidhi district in MP were raped by a 30-year-old man, who used a voice-changing app to pose as a woman college professor offering them scholarships
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Despite global outrage at the gang rape and murder of two minors in Badaun, UP in May 2014, nine years later the case has not reached trial stage. The family continue to live in fear in the same village, awaiting justice
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Can the police demand that a victim submit their complaint in writing? Can they refuse to register a crime because it occurred outside their jurisdiction?
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On November 27, 1973, Aruna Shanbaug, a staff nurse at the KEM Hospital in Mumbai, was brutally attacked by a male sweeper, Sohanlal Valmiki. He raped and sodomised her, while strangling her with a dog chain
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In 1991, 40 Kashmiri women alleged that Army officers raped them. The case remains pending
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From a mother who can't forget her daughter's injuries to a neighbour who keeps a victim's memory alive, the demand for justice for in Bihar continues
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The case from Sikar, Rajasthan shows how calls for punishment of perpetrators don’t always mean empathy for the victim
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Survivors of marital rape face twin hurdles: a lack of legal framework to deal with these cases and the social stigma that comes with reporting them
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How do the residents of Sheikhpur Gudha, Phoolan Devi’s village in Uttar Pradesh, remember her: as a survivor, a rebel, a leader?
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On March 14, 2006, Latabai and her son, six, were paraded naked in a village in Solapur. Less than six months later, four members of a Dalit family were paraded naked; mother & daughter were allegedly gang-raped
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UP has the highest rate of crimes against women, and the district of Unnao has seen some of the State’s most gruesome cases
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The 2012 Delhi gang rape is reflective of a systematic failure to cleanse the societal malaise
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Muhammad Iqbal Shah’s 14-year-old cousin was gang-raped and murdered at Handwara town, Kupwara, in 2007. The family is still trudging along the long road to justice
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From a legal perspective, justice appears to have been served in the 2017 Gudiya rape and murder case at Kotkhai, Himachal Pradesh. But several questions persist
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The lawyer of Bilkis Bano on the woman who fought for justice after losing 14 members of her family and suffering the extreme trauma of gang rape
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Post-2014, Bollywood’s political films have been a bit too enamoured by the Emergency and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. However, the trauma from these events is being used to funnel ideology
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As Mandi MP Kangana Ranaut’s Emergency has to fight an uphill battle to get certified—the MP who is used to the ruling party’s favour finds herself on the opposing side for the first time
Post-2014, Bollywood’s political films have been a bit too enamoured by the Emergency and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. However, the trauma from these events is being used to funnel ideology
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As Mandi MP Kangana Ranaut’s Emergency has to fight an uphill battle to get certified—the MP who is used to the ruling party’s favour finds herself on the opposing side for the first time
Post-2014, Bollywood’s political films have been a bit too enamoured by the Emergency and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. However, the trauma from these events is being used to funnel ideology
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