Women Not Considered Persons but Possessions—Supreme Court Lawyer Vrinda Grover on Rape in India

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"Women are not considered persons but possessions": Supreme Court lawyer and Women's Rights Activist, Vrinda Grover on rape in India .......................................... In an eloquent and powerful interview to discuss rape in India and the question ‘What’s wrong with Indian men?’, one of the Supreme Court’s leading lawyers and a nationally acclaimed defender of women’s rights, Vrinda Grover, says it’s the attitude that “women are not considered as persons but as possessions” that lies at the core of the problem. National Crime Record Bureau data shows there were 90 rapes each day in India in 2021, one every 16 minutes in 2022 and four every hour in 2023. As a result a Thomson Reuters study says India is the most dangerous country for women. Even in Bengal, after the horrible RG Kar hospital tragedy, with hundreds of thousands if not millions protesting on the streets of Calcutta, molestation and rapes are continuing in hospitals and ambulances. In India, grandmothers of 90 and little babies of three months have got raped. In Kota last week a 28-year old man raped his mother. What leads men to behave like this? I am deliberately giving you the facts and details that make this discussion so important rather than the powerful eloquent answers from Vrinda Grover. Those you must see for yourself. I do not want to steal their impact by giving them to you in precis or paraphrase. Ms. Grover not only addresses and answers the issue ‘What’s wrong with Indian men?’ but also the wider issue behind it which is ‘What’s wrong with Indian society?’ In the circumstances of today, if there is one interview you should see it’s this 21-minute interview. Join The Wire's Youtube Membership and get exclusive content, member-only emojis, live interaction with The Wire's founders, editors and reporters and much more. Memberships to The Wire Crew start at Rs 89/month. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWtJey46brNr7qHQpN6KLQ/join

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