Three women, three rapes, different fates.
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Rapes are not breaking news in India.
They don’t break anything: our privileged lives, our families, our government, our military, our national pride, our political parties, or loyalty of the vote banks. Definitely not the capitalistic establishments, which often gain massively from the rape culture.
Nothing of great value in our world is agitated, disturbed or uprooted when a person is raped. We continue to advance as a race with blood of women, girls and young boys in our hands and their ignored cries in our conscience.
Last November, I read about Dr. Priyanka Reddy’s murder and rape case in Hyderabad while sitting on a dirty bench in a court in Pune.
I was waiting there for a friend who was inside a magistrate’s office giving a statement about her rape and sexual assault, when I read about Dr.Reddy.
Dr. Reddy was a veterinarian from Hyderabad who was kidnapped, gang-raped, burnt alive and whose name was searched more than a 8 million times on pornography websites soon after her death — my first and last introduction to Dr. Reddy.
With this limited but gut-wrenching introduction, the only way I could deeply connect to Dr. Reddy…
