New Delhi: 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 R.G. Kar Hospital tragedy, with hundreds of thousands if not millions protesting on the streets of Kolkata, 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?
Grover not only addresses and answers the question ‘what’s wrong with Indian men?’, but also the wider issue behind it, which is ‘what’s wrong with Indian society?’
