Missing the point
Once again women in India are in the eye of the storm. The title India’s Daughter, as some argued, is reminiscent of Katherine Mayo’s Mother India ; it smacked of an Orientalist gaze and projected Indian women in poor light. In a rare show of wisdom, the Central government set up the Justice Verma Committee to review the laws relating to sexual assault and it organised a national consultation to hear out the concerns of women’s organisations across the country and came up with a report in record time. There is no doubt that the Western media highlight concerns raised by the women’s movement on a selective basis, and their choice, over the years, have remained largely restricted to issues of sexual violence against women in India. To address the numerous questions accompanying these changes, we need back-up research teams that monitor the data, and, in fact, longer and more detailed interviews to capture the thought processes which shape the outcomes that are visible in extreme brutality and the increase in the violence and the intensity of it, especially against women.
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