There was a dainty figure sitting on a bench. A girl bundled in a black shawl. And then a shadow emerged from the darkness. He stopped, as he spotted the girl. He approached her, hovered around her. 

We need to speak of marital rapes not just because they are sexual violence, but also because of the unwanted pregnancy forced on a women.

If we have to stop crime against women - whether girl infant, girl students, teen girls, married women, working women, whoever - then we have to stop saying “She invited it, she asked for it”.

Entitled people in power have always blamed crimes against women on the ‘freedom of women’ rather than focusing on the perpetrators and a system that supports rape culture.

A rapist is a rapist! A rapist has no caste because terrorism has no caste; no religion. It is high time we acknowledge rape for what it is! An Act of Terrorism!