A decade after a brutal gang rape in Delhi led to our toughest laws, the National Crime Records Bureau continues to report an upward trend in crimes against women.
The problem is not a lack of laws but sheer callousness when it comes to the lives of women. (Amal KS/Hindustan Times)
Barely into the new year and the news for women is already grim. On December 31, one of the most patrolled nights of the year, four men in a car hit a woman on a scooter, don’t bother to stop, and instead drag her for several kilometers. She dies of her injuries. On an Air India flight, a drunk passenger urinates on a 70-year-old woman. On landing, he happily goes home, and it’s media outrage a month later that leads to a police complaint and a belated announcement by the airline to ban him for 30 days.