The savagery and wanton cruelty of the attack that killed a young Indian woman in December shocked the country to its core. But there is more behind the spontaneous protests that have choked Delhi and other Indian cities in the weeks since.
NEW DELHI β Last year ended for India on a note of public outrage that has burdened the country with anger, frustration, and pessimism. The cause, as all the world knows, was the fatally brutal rape of a young woman on a moving bus, after which she and her male companion β himself beaten nearly to death β were thrown, naked, into the street on a freezing night.
NEW DELHI β Last year ended for India on a note of public outrage that has burdened the country with anger, frustration, and pessimism. The cause, as all the world knows, was the fatally brutal rape of a young woman on a moving bus, after which she and her male companion β himself beaten nearly to death β were thrown, naked, into the street on a freezing night.