Relevant Articles

If you are interested in reading more about the history of sexual violence in South Asia and how to address its structural nature, we invite you to browse through this list of recent related articles.

Towards Structural Change of Patriarchy

• Aisha Gill. “Does the death penalty afford meaningful redress in rape cases?” New Statesman 4 January 2013. <http://www.newstatesman.com/voices/2013/01/does-death-penalty-afford-meaningful-redress-rape-cases>
• Meenakshi Ganguly. Dispatches: India Needs To Deal With Sex Crimes, But Not This Way. Human Rights Watch. 24 July 2014. <http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/24/dispatches-india-needs-deal-sex-crimes-not-way>.
• Navsharan Singh and Urvashi Butalia. "Challenging Impunity on Sexual Violence in South Asia: Beginning a Discussion." Economic and Political Weekly. 14 July 2012. <http://www.sacw.net/IMG/pdf/EPW_ART_SV.pdf>.
• Neha Dixit. “Rape in India: Reading between the lines.” Al Jazeera. 15 June 2014. <http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/6/15/rape-in-india-readingbetweenthelines.html> 
• Praveen Swami. Why rape victims aren't getting justice. The Hindu. March 11, 2012. <http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/why-rape-victims-arent-getting-justice/article2982508.ece>
• Rukmini Sen. "NCRB data backs Delhi as 'rape capital' claim." The Hindu. 1 July 2014 <http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ncrb-data-backs-delhi-rape-capital-claim/article6167123.ece>.
• Rukmini Sen. “The Need for an Everyday Culture of Protest.” EPW Vol - XLVIII No. 02. 12 January 2013. <http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/need-everyday-culture-protest.html>
• Subhashini Ali. “From Outrage to Empowerment.” The Hindu 26 December 2012. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/from-outrage-to-empowerment/article4229819.ece

On Rape Culture

- In India

• Neha Dixit. “Toilets or not, paturiyas always.” Deccan Chronicle. 11 June 2014. <http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140611/commentary-op-ed/article/toilets-or-not-paturiyas-always>
• Sohaila Abdulali. “I Fought For My Life…And Won.” Manushi. 1983. < http://kractivist.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/i-fought-for-my-life-and-won-sohaila-abdulal-mustread-vaw-rape/>
• "The many shades of rape cases in Delhi." The Hindu. 30 July 2014. http://www.thehindu.com/data/the-many-shades-of-rape-cases-in-delhi/article6261042.ece?ref=relatedNews
• Urvashi Butalia. “Let’s ask how we contribute to rape.” The Hindu. 26 December 2012. <http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/lets-ask-how-we-contribute-to-rape/article4235902.ece?homepage=true> 

- In the US

• Claire Potter. “The Five Big Lies about Campus Rape.” Tenured Radical. 13 August 2013. < http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2013/08/the-five-big-lies-about-campus-rape/>.
• "A Survivor’s Burden: Columbia Student Carries Mattress on Campus Until Alleged Rapist is Expelled." Democracy Now.  16 September 2014. <http://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/16/a_survivors_burden_columbia_student_carries

On Masculinities

• Nivedita Menon. "Men against Sexual Violence, Men for Gender Justice." Kaafila. 28 December 2012. <http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://kafila.org/2012/12/28/men-against-sexual-violence-men-for-gender-justice/>
• Paromita Vohra. “The Sons of Men.” Mid-Day 23 December 2012. < http://archive.mid-day.com/columnists/2012/dec/231212-Opinion-The-Sons-of-Men.htm>
• Suchi Govindarajan. "Modesty of dress and Indian culture." The Hindu. 22 March 2012. <http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/modesty-of-dress-and-indian-culture/article2982283.ece.>
• “This is about you and me”: RJ Balaji on Men. Orinam. 5 January 2013. < http://orinam.net/rj-balaji-on-men/>

On Hostile Cities

• Rahul Tongia. “Delhi Rape: What we can learn from the Colombian experience.” Firstpost. 1 January 2013. < http://www.firstpost.com/india/delhi-rape-what-we-can-learn-from-the-colombia-experience-574799.html>
• Shilpa Phadke. “Thinking About Cities and Violence.” Mid-Day. 21 December 2012. < http://archive.mid-day.com/columnists/2012/dec/211212-opinion-Shilpa-Phadke-Thinking-about-cities-and-violence.htm>
• Kavita Panjabi. "Singing in The Face of Blows." Outlook India. 18 September 2014. http://m.outlookindia.com/article/Singing-In-The-Face-Of-Blows-/291973/?maneref=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com
• Anwesha Dhar. " Horrors of Last Night at Jadavpur University: My Friends Were Brutally Assaulted, Their Clothes Torn." youthkiawaz.com. 18 September, 2014. < http://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2014/09/jadavpur-university-molestation-case/

On Feminism

• Albertina Almeida. “From Vanita to Vandana.” Herald Epaper 26 December 2012. <http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=8572&boxid=33545781&uid=&dat=12/26/2012>
• Amrita Nandy. "Nivedita Menon: We're witnessing new interventions by feminists of all genders." Times of India. 7 January 2013. <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion /interviews/Nivedita-Menon-Were-witnessing-new-interventions-by-feminists-of-all-genders/articleshow/17915582.cms?referral=PM >

On Political Implications of Sexual Violence

- In Gujarat 2002

• Martha C. Nussbaum. "Body Of The Nation: Why Women Were Mutilated In Gujarat.” Boston Review 29 July 2004. <http://www.countercurrents.org/guj-nussbaum290704.htm>
• Tanika Sarkar. "Semiotics of Terror: Muslim Children and Women in Hindu Rashtra." EPW Commentary 13 July 2002. <http://www.sacw.net/DC/CommunalismCollection/ArticlesArchive/TanikaSarkarJUL02.html>

- In Global Conflict

• David D. Kirkpatrick and Mayy El Sheikh. “Video of Mass Sexual Assault Taints Egypt Inauguration.” NY Times June 9, 2014. <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/world/middleeast/video-of-mass-sexual-assault-taints-egypt-inauguration.html?_r=0>
• Radhika Coomaraswamy. “A Question of Honour: Women, Ethnicity, and Armed Conflict.” Lecture delivered at the Third Minority Rights Lecture on 25th May, 1999 at Hotel Intercontinental, Geneva. < http://www.sacw.net/Wmov/RCoomaraswamyOnHonour.html>