{"id":59841,"date":"2023-11-14T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/14\/jharkhand-india-rape-culture-nisha-pahuja-film-to-kill-a-tiger"},"modified":"2023-11-14T19:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:00:02","slug":"how-a-fathers-love-for-his-daughter-challenged-indias-rape-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59841","title":{"rendered":"How a father\u2019s love for his daughter challenged India\u2019s \u2018rape culture\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of girl\u2019s refusal to be shamed by her gang-rape and a father\u2019s fight for justice, defying a village\u2019s hostility and the dead weight of patriarchy, is told in Nisha Pahuja\u2019s film To Kill a Tiger<\/p>\n<p>When his 13-year-old daughter stumbled home six years ago and told her father that she had been gang-raped, Ranjit<strong> <\/strong>embarked on a mission to get justice in a manner that is almost unheard of in rural India.<\/p>\n<p>Going against the wishes of the entire village in the eastern state of Jharkhand, and challenging India\u2019s highly patriarchal culture, the rice farmer reported the crime to the authorities and pursued the case relentlessly until the three men were brought to trial.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/14\/jharkhand-india-rape-culture-nisha-pahuja-film-to-kill-a-tiger\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of girl\u2019s refusal to be shamed by her gang-rape and a father\u2019s fight for justice, defying a village\u2019s hostility and the dead weight of patriarchy, is told in Nisha Pahuja\u2019s film To Kill a TigerWhen his 13-year-old daughter stumbled home six y&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,707,69,59,62,86,78,242,440,79,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-documentary-films","category-film","category-global-development","category-india","category-law","category-life-and-style","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-sexual-violence","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59842,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59841\/revisions\/59842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}