The 17-year-old girl is telling me about her life after being raped in a village in Haryana. The real problem, she says, is there is nowhere to go. A trip to the tailor sets off tongues. If she so much as smiles in public, eyebrows shoot up. And there are times when even her father, frustrated with legal proceedings, yells at her for bringing so much trouble.
The family eventually moved out of the village and I lost touch with the girl. But I doubt the situation has changed very much. Violent sexual assault continues and so do social attitudes towards girls and women who are raped.
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