Eye Browse: The Rape Edition

A collection, in no particular order, of writing in the aftermath of the Delhi rape and protests

Storified by prempanicker · Mon, Dec 31 2012 01:29:44

For Anonymous

That girl, the one without the name. The one just like us. The one whose battered body stood for all the anonymous women in this country ...

From @zigzackly: “Imagine a world where rapes don’t happen. Imagine being the generation that made it possible." http://zigzackly.blogspot.in/2012/12/imagine.html?m=1

— Nilanjana Roy · Fri, Dec 28 2012 19:03:38

The danger to women lurks within us

Even as public anger on rape mounts, it is important to understand that policing is a small part of the problem - and can only be a small...

We Are All Responsible, We Are All Guilty By Akanksha Mehta

By Akanksha Mehta 29 December, 2012 Countercurrents.org The 23-year-old Delhi student who was gang raped and brutally assaultedon a movin...

To the Young Women and Men of Delhi: Thinking about Rape from India Gate

Dear young women and men of Delhi, Thank you for the courage and the honour you have brought to Rajpath, the most dishonorable street in ...

Delhi outrage: A sycophantic, arrogant and insensitive govt

Can't these guys get anything right? As I write this, "#Theek hai" is trending right on top on . For those who missed that wonderful mome...

Let's ask how we contribute to rape

As I write this, there are protests going on all over Delhi, and in other parts of the country, against the gang-rape of a young woman on...

Occupy Raisina Hill - Indian Express

The protest against rape is a howl of anguish, not a charter of real demands Thousands of sincere young people gathered at Raisina Hill t...

At the heart of Delhi, no space for you

What do they want? (Home Minister Shinde, of the students) The students in Delhi who were protesting on Saturday didn't know exactly how ...

Talking rape

Survivors, not victims: This goes beyond semantics. The rape victim, in the minds of many Indian families and some of the media, is expec...

"There appears to be no stigma in being a rapist." Mihir Srivastava in 2009 on Indian rapists, via @surekhapillai. http://bit.ly/RZcKGu

— Nilanjana Roy · Sat, Dec 29 2012 20:58:22

The two-finger test and how we add gratuitous humiliation to unconscionable injury: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/12/30/indias-two-finger-test-for-rape-needs-to-end-experts-say/

— prempanicker · Sun, Dec 30 2012 02:20:04

On the finger test, and other problems with Indian rape laws, an old 2010 piece that I'd done for the IHT: http://nyti.ms/ZLV7gJ

— Nilanjana Roy · Sun, Dec 30 2012 05:04:59

In the home. On the street. On the commute. At work. At play. A map of everyday violence RT @nilanjanaroy: http://bit.ly/leP4eK

— prempanicker · Sun, Dec 30 2012 05:42:11

In the Hindu, Annie Zaidi on why women live in a state of suspended apprehension: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/why-is-rape-our-collective-culture/article4251356.ece

— prempanicker · Sun, Dec 30 2012 02:10:31