The Pink Sari Gang
In India, the gang-rape of a young psychology student last December which ended in the girl’s agonizing death 13 days later has come to symbolize everything that is wrong with the country today. The crime that took place on a bus commandeered by the 6 culprits, one of which was the actual bus driver, proved to women that they cannot rely on the government to look out for them. India’s booming middle-class, which emerged following economic liberalisation in the early 1990s, is demanding change.
In India, the gang-rape of a young psychology student last December which ended in the girl’s agonizing death 13 days later has come to symbolize everything that is wrong with the country today. The crime that took place on a bus commandeered by the 6 culprits, one of which was the actual bus driver, proved to women that they cannot rely on the government to look out for them. India’s booming middle-class, which emerged following economic liberalisation in the early 1990s, is demanding change.
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