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What Happens After the Rape.. (opens the original)
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There are two lies we tell ourselves about rape in India.The first is that we are shocked by it.India is once again in the grip of protests over a series of rapes that have rocked the national capital, right after the prestigious BRICS summit. Students have taken to the streets, women are demanding the right to move through their city without fear, and the country is once again having the conversation it has had after almost every horrific sexual assault that has made national headlines.The seco
The Lawyer India Lost, the Man I Still Miss (opens the original)
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The uprising that exposed Narendra Modi may resurrect Rahul Gandhi (opens the original)
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On Friday, Rahul Gandhi sat outside a police station in New Delhi beside Sahil Lochab, a 19-year-old protester whose body was pierced by pellets during a demonstration against India’s failing examination system. Lochab is now at risk of losing vision in one eye. Gandhi had accompanied him to demand that the police register a criminal complaint against the Delhi Police officers responsible for shooting at the student protesters. When the officers resisted, India’s opposition leader began a sit-in
NARENDRA MODI IS A WORRIED MAN (opens the original)
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In a short video circulating on Indian social media, Narendra Modi sits silently in the back of a car as an aide leans inside to fasten his seat belt. The prime minister is unsmiling, his body almost motionless. It may be nothing more than an unguarded moment of fatigue. A few seconds of footage cannot tell us what a man is thinking, and it would be foolish to diagnose a political condition from an expression. Yet the image travelled because it appeared so profoundly at odds with the man India h
I Thought I Had Escaped Grief (opens the original)
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My aunt Ayesha, Badi Amma, as we called her, was married to my father’s eldest brother. Unlike all our other relatives, she was the only one who did not belong to northern India. She was from Bombay.In an extended family obsessed with pedigree and preserving its cultural, parochial purity, she was always viewed as an outsider. All my other aunts came from families in Azamgarh; it was almost an abomination to marry a woman from outside that small town in Uttar Pradesh. So when my uncle married he
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