Hinduphobia has many variations from religious and racist hate but most of all often disguised under intellectual camouflage by the academia, media, and political class across the left wing to the right wing. When all it takes is something very basic to trigger the deep-down hidden Hinduphobic racism as we see here displayed in this [...]
Seven-year old Sulekha Das does not smile anymore. All she does is stare unfocused at the clumsily painted hospital walls, as callous government officials troop in inspecting her as if she were an artefact. Sulekha and her eight-year-old sister (who died later) were raped in Bhola, in Barisal district, Bangladesh on October 24, 2001. [...]
Pakistani journalist Shaan Khan’s piece “What’s Really Behind India’s Rape Crisis,” published this Friday (25/3/16) on The Daily Beast, looks at China and India — two countries with similarly skewed sex ratios — and asks why India in the last few years has experienced a “rape crisis,” while China has not. At the outset, one [...]