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August 10, 2012

THE INDIAN GIRLS IN TROUBLE

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER

 

A few weeks back, The Times of India published an article “Shame:DelhistillIndia’s rape capital”. This article by V Narayan says, “Delhicontinues to be the rape capital of the country, followed by Mumbai.Delhiregistered 568 cases of rape, compared to 218 in Mumbai in 2011, National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) statistics showed. In the period of 2007-2011,Delhitopped the chart, followed by Mumbai,Bhopal, Pune and Jaipur.” This article was very much shocking and disappointing for me because it reminded me of a renaming ceremony held somewhere in late 2011, in a central Indian district of Mumbai. In that ceremony more than 200 Indian girls chose new names for them just to give a fresh start to their life. These were the girls whose names meant “unwanted” or “disliked” in Hindi language. The Indian media took that event as the beginning of a revolution regarding the sorry plight of women inIndia. Various channels were hopeful that this revolutionary start up would help fight widespread gender discrimination that has givenIndiaa tilted gender ratio; more boys than girls. They were confident that this Read More »THE INDIAN GIRLS IN TROUBLE