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4 Apr, 2013

Reign of terror by Juggle-Bandhi : Jug Suraiya’s blog-The Times Of India

While gender terrorism has been a chronic disease in Indian society, the gang rape of the young woman whom the TOI named Nirbhaya seems to have opened a Pandora`s box of gender assaults being reported from across the country. It is not that these savage crimes did not occur previously; it is that media attention and public awareness have brought them into focus. Cases which previously might have gone unreported, or ignored, by law enforcement authorities and by society at large, both of which were apathetic at best, or even downright hostile, to the plight of the victims, are now being brought to light.

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