Editorial Note
Female gender discrimination and violence start from birth till death.
In India, a woman is raped every 15 minutes. The nation’s tryst with the honour of its women has sunk to abysmal depths of immorality and injustice as its horrendous track record of rapes and gang rapes continues unabated. Only sensational cases hog the limelight––the ones in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, where a teenage Dalit girl was gang-raped and her body forcefully burnt by police, the gruesome gang-rape murder of a lady doctor in Hyderabad, the heinous Nirbhaya rape in Delhi or Asifa Bano incident, the Muslim nomadic girl, held in captivity and gang-raped in a temple precinct in Kathua, J&K –– and only when subsequent national and international outcry for justice for the victims reaches a crescendo, the administration wakes up from their self-imposed slumber.