Indian Rape Protests Foretell Feminist Spring
Bay Area activist and journalist Papiha Nandy (center) observed at the event, whatever policies and laws are enacted by the Indian government to protect women, those laws must be backed by deeper cultural changes. (Photo: Narika)
Few things have struck a chord in me as powerfully as the news of the 23-year-old, female medical student’s brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus Dec. 16 by six drunken men […]
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