{"id":66362,"date":"2024-08-23T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/23\/india-is-outraged-at-a-young-doctors-and-we-have-been-here-too-often"},"modified":"2024-08-23T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:00:26","slug":"india-is-outraged-at-a-young-doctors-rape-and-murder-we-have-been-here-too-often-nilanjana-bhowmick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66362","title":{"rendered":"India is outraged at a young doctor\u2019s rape and murder. We have been here too often | Nilanjana Bhowmick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite protests and laws, sexual violence remains pervasive. India\u2019s misogynist patriarchal culture is holding women back<\/p>\n<p>With a rape occurring every 16 minutes, violence is one of the biggest deterrents to women working in India. On the eve of India\u2019s independence day, 14 August, tens of thousands of women took to the streets across the eastern Indian state of West Bengal in a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/15\/indian-women-march-reclaim-the-night-doctor-rape-murder-protests-womens-safety\">reclaim the night<\/a>\u201d march, after the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p>But we have been here before \u2013 too many times. Most notably in 2012, when we protested at the murder of a young paramedic in Delhi. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2017\/dec\/03\/five-years-after-gang-murder-jyoti-singh-how-has-delhi-changed\">Jyoti Singh<\/a> was raped in a moving bus by several men and left to die on the streets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/23\/india-is-outraged-at-a-young-doctors-and-we-have-been-here-too-often\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite protests and laws, sexual violence remains pervasive. India\u2019s misogynist patriarchal culture is holding women backWith a rape occurring every 16 minutes, violence is one of the biggest deterrents to women working in India. On the eve of India\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4380,"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":[59,62,86,242,440,79,61,2410,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-india","category-law","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-sexual-violence","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","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\/66362","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\/4380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66363,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66362\/revisions\/66363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}