Outlook Magazine - September 11, 2024

In this issue

Lest We Forget...

A City Violated

Public outburst of anger over the rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata has left the Mamata Banerjee government puzzled, worried

6 mins

Criminal Amnesia

The focus may have now shifted to the Kolkata gang rape case, but questions about the sexual violence in Manipur since May 2023 remain unanswered

10 mins

Unspeakable Memories

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

10+ mins

They Didn't Cut the Tree

Despite global outrage at the gang rape and murder of two minors in Budaun, 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

6 mins

Speak Up, Shut Down

How the system defeats a gang rape survivor

8 mins

The Dog Chain & Hospital Bed

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

5 mins

The Lost Innocence

In May, a minor girl was raped in a village in Latehar district of Jharkhand. Incidentally, the state is currently placed third in the country for rapes of minor girls

5 mins

Kunan Poshpora: Frozen in Time

In 1991, 40 Kashmiri women alleged that Army officers raped them. The case remains pending

3 mins

Still Jungle Raj

The demand for justice for victims and survivors of violence in Bihar continues

10 mins

Don't You Remember My Story?

A child gang rape survivor's 12-year long ordeal in Sikar, Rajasthan shows how calls for punishment of perpetrators don't always mean empathy for the victim

8 mins

To Rape A Wife

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

7 mins

Songlines of Chambal

How do the residents of Sheikhpur Gudha, Phoolan Devi's village in Uttar Pradesh, remember her: as a survivor, a rebel, a leader?

10 mins

Naked (vs.) Justice

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

6 mins

The Burning Woman

UP has the highest rate of crimes against women, and the district of Unnao has seen some of the State's most gruesome cases

5 mins

She Must Have Been Afraid

The 2012 Delhi gang rape is reflective of a systematic failure to cleanse the societal malaise

5 mins

Here, Nobody Speaks of the Wounds

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

5 mins

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