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Opinion         06/08/2016.              643.                 All Members,               Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Challenging India’s rape culture : Ref : Medaia report - The Hindu - Ruchira Gupta File photo of Ruchira Gupta, president of Apne Aap Women Worldwide and winner of Clinton Global Citizen Award in 2009. Photo:Sushil Kumar Verma Let us talk about Ram Singh, the chief rapist of the Delhi gang-rape victim, who told his rape-colleagues, as they cleaned the bus, “not to worry, nothing will happen.’ Ram Singh and his five fellow rapists were right. After all, the conviction rate for rape cases in India, between 2001 and 2010, is only 26 per cent. And in Delhi, in the same period, only one in four ...

Opinion         05/08/2016.              642.                All Members,               Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Despite tougher laws, India can't shake rape culture : Mandakini Gahlot, Ref : Media report- Special for USA TODAY NEW DELHI — Despite tougher laws against sexual violence, the grisly rape and murder of two teenage girls found hanging from a tree shows India has a long way to go to safeguard women in its male-dominated, socially stratified culture, critics say. "Even though the laws are there, many people feel they can get away with anything, an attitude that some of our politicians have gone out their way to encourage," said Ranjana Kumari, a prominent women's rights activist and director of the Centre...