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	<title>World &#187; Krista Mahr &#124; TIME.com</title>
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		<title>Chinese Premier Li&#8217;s New Delhi Visit Puts Sino-Indian Ties in the Spotlight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr / New Delhi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Delhi commuters are not among those likely to be won over by China’s new Premier during his three-day visit to the Indian capital this week. On Monday morning, rush-hour traffic ground to a sweltering halt on one of the hottest days of the year, with cars marooned in a labyrinth of barricades set up to control crowds during Li Keqiang’s first foreign visit since taking office in March. Authorities ramped up security outside the Chinese embassy and shut down metro stations near popular protest spots after Tibetan rights groups said they would stage large protests. The protests were minor, but traffic jams were not. As one Twitter user put it: “O.K., one good reason why I don’t trust Chinese &#8230; huge jams and stuck in traffic becoz of them.” Even Kashmir’s chief minister, who was in town for the day, created a hashtag — #delhitrafficmess — to mark the snarl. Disgruntled drivers, however, probably did not figure prominently on Li’s list of priorities during his first official visit to India. The ground that he and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are expected to cover is vast and unsteady, from a recent flare-up in the neighbors’ long-simmering border dispute to the management of rivers to balancing out bilateral trade. &#8220;The purpose of my current visit to India is threefold: to increase mutual trust, to intensify cooperation and to face the future,” Li told reporters on Monday, before the two delegations entered the day&#8217;s official talks. “The development and prosperity of the world cannot happen without the simultaneous development of China and India.” Li is also scheduled to visit Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany. (MORE: India and China Lock Horns in the Indian Ocean) Li’s first day on the ground in New Delhi was dominated by private talks on the border dispute, which started in April when dozens of Chinese soldiers marched into a region of north India that New Delhi claims is well within its borders. India subsequently deployed troops to camp out next to them, instigating a standoff that ended 21 days<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86973&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">From left: India&#039;s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrive for a photo opportunity ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, on May 20, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Why Big Fashion Labels Shouldn&#8217;t Pull Out of Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/03/why-big-fashion-labels-shouldnt-pull-out-of-bangladesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr and Haroon Habib</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine days after the fatal collapse of a garment-factory building on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, hundreds of photos of missing persons are still plastered to the walls of the Enam Medical College and Hospital. Exhausted relatives hold up pictures of their loved ones, showing them to passersby in the corridors in the hopes that somebody will have spotted them. At least 3,500 garment workers were inside the multistory Rana Plaza building when it crumpled in on itself on April 24. As of Wednesday, more than 430 people had been pulled dead from the rubble, and while officials say the number of missing is less than 150, many believe it is much higher. For the hundreds of survivors still recuperating in Enam, the terror of lying for days among dead co-workers is rivaled only by the fear of what lies ahead. Many have had one or more limbs broken or amputated and will be disabled for life, unable to continue working in one of the few industries in Bangladesh that offers regular — if dangerous — employment. The government has promised victims’ families compensation and the survivors future jobs, but workers who have been the financial lifeline of entire households are not comforted. Sujan Roy, a 22-year-old packaging worker, was found buried in the rubble five hours after the building collapsed, and has since had a gangrenous leg amputated. His job at the doomed factory building provided his family’s only source of income and helped send his younger sisters to school. “Now what will happen to them?” he wonders aloud. “Who will give me a job now?” (PHOTOS: Hundreds Dead as Garment Factory in Bangladesh Collapses) The Rana Plaza collapse is the not the first avoidable tragedy in Bangladesh’s booming garment industry, nor is it likely to be the last. Just a few months back, in November, 112 workers were killed in a deadly blaze at the Tazreen Fashions factory, where clothes were being produced for global companies like Walmart and Sears. While this latest disaster has kicked off a fresh round<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84972&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Loblaw Companies Limited Executive Chairman Weston speaks during the annual general shareholders&#039; meeting in Toronto</media:title>
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		<title>India Remembers the Judge Who Helped Toughen Up Rape Laws</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/24/india-remembers-the-judge-who-helped-toughen-up-rape-laws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is rare that a person&#8217;s legacy feels as immediately relevant as the one left behind this week by India’s former chief justice J.S. Verma. Verma, who died on Monday of multiple organ failure at the age of 80 in the New Delhi area, was a central figure in helping the government change its antiquated antirape law after the Dec. 16 gang rape that sent India into a tailspin of street protests and public introspection. The urgency of the reforms that Verma helped usher in was on depressing display this week, as demonstrators took to the streets again over another brutal rape left a 5-year old girl fighting for her life in a New Delhi hospital. In December, Justice Verma was appointed head of a special panel that the government convened in response to the national outrage over the brutal rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student who was attacked by six men on a moving bus in a central part of New Delhi. For several weeks, Verma and a small group of lawyers heard tens of thousands of recommendations from a wide cross section of Indian society on how to improve safety for women in India. After less than a month, the committee issued a 630-page report with detailed recommendations that called into question many social and legal conventions in India. (MORE: Rape of 5-Year-Old Indian Girl Sparks New Outrage, Old Questions) The report, among one of the most — if not the most — comprehensive look at the legal state of modern women&#8217;s rights in India, was widely lauded by rights groups and social activists for its vision. Verma and his colleagues recommended an overall toughening up of laws for crimes against women, including making threatening and commonplace behavior like stalking and voyeurism criminal offenses. The holistic approach of the report advocated using the law to help change aspects of India&#8217;s social structure that engender the kind of moral impunity that led to the violent death of a young women in December. Notably, Verma did not recommend<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=83596&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rape of 5-Year-Old Indian Girl Sparks New Outrage, Old Questions</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/22/in-india-rape-of-five-year-old-girl-sparks-fresh-anger-at-police/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dozens of news vans are again camped in front of a major hospital in New Delhi, jockeying for space behind the yellow police barricades so ubiquitous in the Indian capital in recent months. Inside, the 5-year-old victim of another grotesque rape has been making the first steps in what is sure to be a long recovery after being kidnapped, sexually assaulted and left for dead last week in an apartment one floor beneath her family home. On Monday, doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital told reporters that the girl was showing steady signs of recovery after undergoing several procedures. Two men have been arrested in connection with the attack. For days, scenes across the capital have recalled the weeks following the Dec. 16 gang rape of a 23-year-old student, who later died of her wounds. Demonstrators have again been gathering by the hundreds, clashing with authorities in their outrage at the failure of the police and the government to better protect India&#8217;s citizens and, in particular, its women. On Monday, several streets near the government in central New Delhi were barricaded as protesters from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, among others, marched toward Parliament. (MORE: Will India&#8217;s Tourist Industry Be Tarnished by Attacks on Women?) Before last week, the initial outrage over the brutality of the Dec. 16 crime had been slowly fading in New Delhi, in spite of the unnervingly steady stream of violent rapes that have continued to be reported by Indian media across the country. In March, the government passed a new, tougher rape law that, among other things, allows for rapes resulting in fatalities to be punishable by death. But many say that the more systemic problems at the root of India&#8217;s rising violent crime — such as chronic police understaffing, poor training and a lack of political will to change either — have not been addressed. Sexual assaults are considered to be vastly underreported, and the ones that are reported often go nowhere. In New Delhi alone, of more than<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=83266&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amid Abuse and Fear, Tamils Continue to Flee Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/15/krista-sri-lanka-draft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The offices of a Tamil newspaper in northern Sri Lanka were attacked on Saturday morning, the latest in a string of outrages on the press and a fresh reminder of how the war’s end nearly four years ago did not bring peace for all in this South Asian nation. In what has been reported as the second strike on the paper’s operations in two weeks, senior staff of Uthayan, a Tamil paper that has been critical of the government and the nation’s powerful military, told reporters that three armed men broke into the paper’s headquarters in the northern city of Jaffna, setting fire to the day’s edition and to its printing presses. No employees were hurt in the attack, but they have been in the past. In 2011, an editor and reporter were attacked, and in 2006, gunmen stormed the paper’s offices, killing two members of staff. Eswarapatham Saravanapavan, Uthayan’s owner and a parliamentarian for the Tamil National Alliance party, told the U.K.’s Independent newspaper that he believed the attack on Saturday may have been linked to the military, which a military spokesman has denied. The tensions revealed in the incident are becoming depressingly familiar. The clouds have been darkening over this picturesque island nation in recent years as euphoria over the end of its long-running civil war has ebbed. Since its 2009 defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an insurgency group that for decades fought for an independent homeland for the nation’s ethnic Tamils, the Sri Lankan government has not responded to increasingly vocal demands from the international community for a investigation into alleged war crimes committed in the final stages of the conflict. In March, 25 countries, including India, passed a U.S.-sponsored U.N. Human Rights Council resolution calling for a probe into those allegations and expressing concern at ongoing reports of human-rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, disappearances and torture. Colombo called the measure a threat to Sri Lanka&#8217;s domestic reconciliation efforts; Minister of Media and Information and government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told the state-run Sri<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=81458&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s Buzz: Indian Scion Offers Many Metaphors but Few Solutions</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/05/rahul-gandhis-buzz-indian-scion-offers-many-metaphors-but-few-solutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Rahul Gandhi concluded his widely watched speech to India Inc. yesterday, an unlikely word was left hanging in the air: beehive. It was the political scion’s first major address to business leaders in what promises to be a long and grueling re-election campaign for India’s ruling Congress Party. As the newly appointed party veep and potentially the next Prime Minister of India, Gandhi talked about a lot of things during his hour-plus speech on Thursday, but the thing that stuck was an odd moment during the question-and-answer period when he sought to replace the popular symbol of India as a lumbering pachyderm with something new. “We’re not an elephant. We’re a beehive,” he said emphatically, before posing the question to the audience: “Which is more powerful, an elephant or a beehive?” Cue the awkward pause. Seen by many as a coming-out of sorts for the 42-year-old political heir, yesterday’s speech to the Confederation of Indian Industry was a rare moment for Gandhi to step away from his usual audience of rural constituents and party faithful and try to convince a new crowd that, come national elections scheduled for 2014, Congress deserves another four years in office. It’s not an easy sell, particularly to the business folk who are disillusioned with the current government. Quarterly growth hit a decade low on Congress’s latest watch. Investment and manufacturing fell, while inflation has gone up and the deficit has widened. Did he succeed at making the case? Those who managed to follow the intertwined metaphorical narratives he wove through the speech may have been impressed by a young(ish) politician who, whatever his own political ambitions, clearly believes in his party’s long-standing commitment to improve the lot of India’s hundreds of millions of poor. He was, at moments, an engaging and passionate speaker, particularly when talking about how the nation’s political infrastructure is failing the local-level politicians charged with implementing some of the country’s most crucial laws. That’s all interesting. But let’s get back to the fact that this was a speech to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=79933&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Novartis Decision: Is the Big Win for Indian Pharma Bad News for Investment?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/01/the-novartis-decision-is-the-big-win-for-indian-pharma-bad-news-for-investment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a decisive victory for India’s pharmaceutical industry, India’s Supreme Court rejected Novartis’ patent application for the cancer drug Glivec on Monday, ending a seven-year battle by the Swiss drugmaker to get a patent in India on its powerful leukemia drug. The medication, which was approved for use in the U.S. back in 2001, has been produced generically by Indian pharmaceuticals for years at a fraction of the Swiss drug&#8217;s cost. The Indian drug industry&#8217;s victory, however, is being described as a stunning defeat for intellectual-property rights and may have repercussions on India&#8217;s attempts to attract foreign investment. Nevertheless, health activists have called the top court’s decision a win for patients seeking cheaper treatment and against “evergreening,” the alleged practice of making minor tweaks to an existing drug to prolong a company&#8217;s hold on a patent and protect it from being produced by other firms as a cheaper generic version once the patent has expired. The ruling was met with enthusiasm by Indian drug manufacturers, which produce a generic version of Glivec, or Gleevec, as it is called in the U.S. market. Patients’-rights groups, who advocate for cheaper drugs to be available in countries like India where few can afford costly medication, also applauded the move. Advocates were concerned that a ruling in favor of Novartis could set a precedent that would ultimately cut off India&#8217;s vast supply of cheap generic drugs for diseases like HIV. Such medicines are exported to other developing markets. Millions of poor patients rely on them. (MORE: How an Indian Patent Case Could Reshape the Future of Generic Drugs) India&#8217;s generic-drug industry took off in 1970 after the government allowed for multiple patents to be granted on products with small adjustments to the process in which they were made. Today the industry is one of the nation&#8217;s biggest moneymakers, but India itself is a hugely attractive market for pharmaceutical companies. Novartis filed for an Indian patent on Glivec in 2006 and appealed after its application was rejected on the grounds that the drug had simply<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=79011&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Win for India as Italian Marines Return to Stand Trial</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/24/a-win-for-india-as-italian-marines-return-to-stand-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[India won a diplomatic coup on Friday as two Italian marines returned to India to stand trial for allegedly shooting two fishermen off the coast of Kerala last winter. The incident, in which the marines, hired as private security to an Italian oil tanker, say they mistook the men to be pirates, has been the source of escalating tension between the two nations for the past year but came to a head last week, when the marines returned for what was slated to be a temporary visit to Italy but Rome said they would not be going back. On Thursday, the Italian government finally agreed to send them back after gaining the assurance from New Delhi that they would not face the death penalty. It ended a dicey few weeks for the Congress-led government — and for Indian-Italian ties. The marines, who had been out on bail in India awaiting trial, have come and gone before since their arrest last year, when India allowed them to go home for Christmas. When India&#8217;s Supreme Court allowed them to return home again to vote in their country&#8217;s elections last month, the Italian ambassador to India, Daniele Mancini, acted as a guarantor in the High Court that they would go back by March 22. When Rome decided that they were not to be returned and Mr. Mancini informed the court as such, India&#8217;s High Court put a ban on his leaving the country, alerting airports to look out for him, and denied his appeal for diplomatic immunity. (MORE: India: Can Palaniappan Chidambaram Fulfill the Aspirations of a Restless Nation?) The move did not go down well in Italy nor in India, where the opposition took the opportunity to lambast the government for allowing them to leave in the first place. But Congress leaders stood their ground. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh issued a stern warning saying that any attempt by Rome to obstruct India&#8217;s legal process by not returning the marines would “violate every rule of diplomatic discourse and call into question solemn commitments<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=77398&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will India Tourism Be Tarnished by Attacks on Women?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/20/will-india-tourism-be-tarnished-by-attacks-on-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[India may have moved yet another rung down the ladder of desirable destinations for female travelers. Reports surfaced on Tuesday of a British woman injured after trying to escape out a window from the unwanted advances of a hotel manager in Agra, home of the Taj Mahal and the nation’s biggest tourist draw. The news came almost immediately after Indian police arrested six men suspected of raping a Swiss tourist, who was camping with her husband during a bike tour when the couple was attacked. Female tourists — and Indian women — have been on alert since December, when a 23-year-old woman was brutally raped aboard a moving bus in New Delhi and eventually died of her wounds. Security in the capital has been visibly ramped up since then. Barricades are now set up on busy streets at night, manned by police who, with varying degrees of diligence, keep an eye on passing cars. But reports of egregious attacks on Indian and foreign women alike are still ubiquitous in the country&#8217;s media outlets, raising the question of when, if ever, these measures and tough new laws aimed at deterring sex crimes are going to start working. (MORE: Another High-Profile Rape in India Highlights Ongoing Problem) Few are holding their breath. Instead, tips are circulating on travel forums, urging female tourists not to travel alone, wear revealing clothing, drink or smoke in public, or be overly friendly. The U.S. State Department travel advisory to India now includes a long warning to women that urges them to “observe stringent security precautions, including avoiding use of public transport after dark without the company of known and trustworthy companions, restricting evening entertainment to well-known venues, and avoiding isolated areas when alone at any time of day.” It’s a p.r. nightmare for India’s tourist industry, which sees over 6.5 million visitors a year. Female tourists have been the subjects of high-profile attacks in India before, most notably in 2008 when a 15-year-old British girl was raped and left for dead on a beach in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=76623&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another High-Profile Rape in India Highlights Ongoing Problem</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/18/another-high-profile-rape-in-india-highlights-ongoing-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Widespread hopes that the outrage over last year’s infamous gang rape would spark lasting change in India receded further still this weekend, as the attack of a Swiss tourist in central India made headlines around the world. The victim, a woman from Lausanne, Switzerland, who is reportedly 39 years old, was camping for a night during a bike tour with her husband in the state of Madhya Pradesh when she was sexually assaulted by several men around 10 p.m. on Friday. The men robbed the couple and fled. Several Indian media outlets reported that police arrested five men in connection with the attack Sunday, though there have been conflicting statements from officials. While unusual because of the victim’s nationality, the incident is one of hundreds of cases of rape that have come to light in the three months since Dec. 16, when a 23-year-old student was fatally raped and assaulted on board a moving bus in the Indian capital. The government responded to the ensuing massive protests and collective outcry over the attack with a flurry of measures designed to improve safety for women in the capital and increase punishment for rape and other gender-related violence, including making rape that results in death a capital offense. (VIDEO: The Delhi Rape: TIME Talks to Suspect&#8217;s Family) What lasting impact those measures will have — particularly beyond the streets of the capital — is still unclear. The same day that the Swiss tourist was attacked, Indian media reported that another woman in Madhya Pradesh’s capital was gang-raped aboard a moving bus during the middle of the day. Widespread mistrust of police, understaffed forces and the stretched capacity of the courts are seen as contributing to what seems to be an increasing sense of impunity on display in these exceedingly violent sexual assaults. In New Delhi alone, of more than 600 rape cases filed last year, just one resulted in a conviction. “There is an overwhelming feeling [among sex offenders] that you can get around the system,” says Rajat Mitra, a clinical psychologist<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75827&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Ram Singh&#8217;s Life—and Death—Says About Violence and Inequity in India</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/14/what-ram-singhs-life-and-death-says-about-violence-and-inequity-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 02:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr / Kalla Dhey and New Delhi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A green tongue of water winds through Kalla Dhey, a patchwork of mud-walled houses and small fields in Karauli district in India’s northern Rajasthan state. The water, covered with algae, separates a few unlucky households from the rest of Karauli. During the monsoon, the green water rises, and the inhabitants are marooned on their temporary island, cut off for weeks at a time. Not long ago, residents say, a woman in labor had to be ferried in an inner tube to the other shore to get to a road that leads to the hospital. During the dry season, a flimsy bridge of matted grass over the low river links Kalla Dhey to the rest of Karauli. In recent weeks, an unprecedented number of visitors have made their way over that bridge and along the dusty footpaths, past the sunlit fields of yellow mustard flowers and the faraway sound of kids at play. On a dirt outcropping stands a mud-walled shack with a sagging roof, windows covered in tarp when nobody’s home. It’s not much different than any other house around it, except for the strangers who keep knocking at its door, and the fact that two of the men who grew up here—brothers—have been accused of perpetrating one of the most heinous crimes in the history of modern India. (MORE: Another Outrage: Delhi Bus Rape Suspect Found Dead) One of the brothers was Ram Singh, a bus driver who was found hanged in his cell in New Delhi in the early morning of March 11. Singh, 34, was being held in the capital’s Tihar Jail for his alleged role in the brutal rape that occurred on Dec. 16, when a 23-year-old woman walked out of a mall in the Indian capital with her friend, a 28-year-old man, after watching Life of Pi. Five of the six men charged with the rape and the murder that followed—the young woman died less than two weeks later—have been on trial since January. The sixth suspect is being charged and tried separately as a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75189&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Outrage: Delhi Bus-Rape Suspect Found Dead</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/11/another-outrage-delhi-bus-rape-suspect-found-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ram Singh, one of the five suspects on trial in New Delhi for December’s gang-rape case, was found dead in his cell in the capital’s Tihar Jail early Monday morning. Officials have said that the 33-year-old Singh, the alleged mastermind in the brutal sexual assault that captured the world’s attention last year, was found at 5 a.m., having hanged himself with his clothes. Singh and four other suspects have been on trial since January in a special fast-track court in New Delhi for the rape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student who, along with a male friend, they allegedly lured onto a private bus on the night of Dec. 16 and violently assaulted. (A sixth suspect in the case is being tried separately as a juvenile.) The male victim sustained minor wounds, and the female victim died less than two weeks later in a hospital in Singapore. Singh’s death may flag yet another crack in a beleaguered criminal-justice system whose weaknesses has been on stark display as the Delhi gang-rape case has unfolded. Ram Singh was being held in a high-security section of Tihar Jail, where officials told Indian media that he and the other five suspects were on suicide watch. Jail officials told local media that Singh’s cellmates were present during the night, as was a guard. How, then, this key suspect in one of the most high-profile court cases in modern Indian history could commit suicide is the latest question that authorities will have to answer. A government probe was immediately ordered into Singh’s death. (PHOTOS: In India, a Rape Sparks Violent Protests and Demands for Justice) Until the results of the inquiry are in, the conditions that Singh was living under at Tihar will likely remain murky. Tihar Jail is known for being one of the more progressive incarceration facilities in India, with extensive work programs for prisoners. But it’s also known for being overcrowded, and has been, in the past, almost at twice its allotted capacity. Rajat Mitra, a clinical psychologist and director of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=74136&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hyderabad Bomb Blasts: Two Deadly Explosions Leave Terror Cloud over India</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/21/hyderabad-bomb-blasts-two-deadly-explosions-leave-terror-cloud-over-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least 12 people have been killed and scores injured on Thursday in twin bombings that authorities believe may have been a terrorist attack in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. There has been no official confirmation as to the nature of the blasts, but government officials have said they were carried out by a “well trained” group and were coordinated. Local media are reporting that the blasts come two days after government security agencies sent an advisory to states to tighten security in light of potential threats from militant groups operating in the region related to the recent executions of convicted terrorists Ajmal Kasab and Mohammed Afzal Guru. In tweets sent out after the attacks on Thursday evening, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed to the public to remain calm. “This is a dastardly attack, the guilty will not go unpunished,” he tweeted. The attack was the first major bombing in India since a blast outside a court in New Delhi in 2011 that killed 11 people. KRISHNENDU HALDER / REUTERS Police examine the site of an explosion at Dilsukh Nagar in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Feb. 21, 2013 India has been on alert since Guru, who was Kashmiri, was executed earlier this month in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail. Guru was convicted of involvement in the 2001 attacks on Parliament in which 14 people were killed, but many in Kashmir in particular believe he did not receive a fair trial and were upset by the handling of his execution. Forensics teams have reportedly been deployed to the bomb sites along with officials from the National Investigative Agency and Intelligence Bureau. The bombs, which authorities say were attached to two bicycles, were detonated around 7 p.m. outside a movie theater and bus station in a busy area of the city of some 10 million people, according to police. Singh, in addition to condemning the attacks, announced the government would give 200,000 rupees ($3,700) to relatives of the deceased and 50,000 rupees ($900) to those injured in the attacks. Further compensation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=70465&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the Largest Gathering of Humanity, Who Takes Out the Trash?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is perhaps nowhere in the world where people strip down with such gusto as they do on the banks of the Ganges during the Kumbh Mela. On Feb. 10, some 30 million pilgrims converged on a narrow strip of riverfront in Allahabad, India, ditching their sweaters, pants, saris, skirts, T-shirts, scarves, sandals and whatever other garments stood in their way between this mortal coil and a little salvation. Some tiptoed gingerly into the murky water, plugging their noses as they went under; others ran in with a battle cry. But every pilgrim washed their sins away in the water on that holy day, when the stars and planets aligned for a fleeting moment to spill life-giving nectar from the heavens into the Mother Ganges. (PHOTOS: Tens of Millions Gather at India’s Kumbh Mela) As the faithful left, dripping and shivering, workers in orange vests swooped in to collect the thousands of orphaned sandals, sweaters, vests, T-shirts and scarves, clearing the way for the next wave of bathers to come and start it all over again. The mounds of soggy clothes left behind are a small part of the massive amount of waste being generated every day at this year’s Kumbh Mela, the gathering that happens every 12 years in northern India. This Kumbh, 100 million pilgrims are expected to make their way to the river’s edge during the 55-day event, and they will create some 200 tons of garbage every day. Getting that trash out of the hundreds of camps and clearings where people sleep and eat during the pilgrimage is not just a sanitary and logistical necessity, it’s an opportunity. The central government will spend over $220 million on this year&#8217;s Kumbh Mela, but officials estimate that 15 to 20 times more will be generated in jobs and businesses supporting the event. Most of the year, “Kumbh City” is not an inhabited part of Allahabad. There is no pre-existing water or electricity supply there, or any system to get rid of human waste. But by the time the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=68625&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Hindu devotees walk past a pile of trash while returning from the river after taking a holy dip at the Sangam or the confluence of the Yamuna, Ganges and mythical Sarawati rivers at sunrise during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad on Feb. 12, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Pilgrims Killed in Crush to Get Home from Indian Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*This story was updated at 4:34 a.m. on Feb. 11 with the latest figures. A scrum of ambulances and television vans gathered outside a hospital in Allahabad late Sunday evening after at least 37 people were killed and dozens injured in the pilgrims&#8217; rush to get home after the holiest bathing day of the Maha Kumbh Mela festival. The cause: part of a footbridge at the Allahabad railway station collapsed earlier that evening while thousands of people waiting on platforms to board incoming trains. The carnage increased in the ensuing panic and a stampede. All day, a seemingly endless stream of people had flowed through the streets of Allahabad, a city in northern India. Officials estimated that over 30 million people from across India arrived there to bathe in the Ganges over the course of the day, the most auspicious of six main bathing days during the 55-day festival. Millions of devotees awoke before dawn to make the excruciatingly crowded walk to the water&#8217;s edge. “The whole country is cursed,” said Bal Chand, explaining why he and 10 family members were making their way early this morning through the crowds. “Today you can feel the gods and goddesses come alive. If we take a bath, things will be better.” (PHOTOS: Tens of Millions Gather at India’s Maha Kumbh Mela) It’s a hope that drives as many as 100 million faithful bathers to endure crushing crowds and tough conditions while some spend more than a month in the Kumbh Mela grounds in Allahabad, where the festival is held every 12 years. Many left for home this afternoon, balancing unwieldy bundles of pots, clothes and bedrolls on their heads; and as that occurred, parts of the city came to a near standstill. Traffic police struggled to manage the pedestrian crowds streaming toward bus and railway stations, rickshaws, cars and scooters. Not handling that surge properly might have contributed to today’s events, according to officials. Ram Shankar, head of the station&#8217;s railway police, says he arrived at the station around 9 p.m., where he<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=68128&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India Must Do More to Prevent Child Sex Abuse, Report Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more disturbing things to come to light since the Dec. 16 Delhi gang rape is just how many cases of sexual violence in India involve children. In the media’s ongoing effort to keep attention on the problem of sexual assault, the fact that children are so frequently the victims of brutal sexual attacks has provided yet another rude wake up call, and a grim reminder that the cases coming to light are only a small part of a much bigger problem. (Have a look at the rolling headlines at the bottom of this page of the Times of India.) &#8220;There is a lot of attention on sexual violence now,&#8221; said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director for Human Rights Watch, on Thursday. &#8220;We need to focus the attention on the sexual abuse of children.&#8221; That is the goal of a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The Feb. 7 report calls for the government to do more to protect children from sexual abuse. In more than 100 interviews, case studies of multiple child victims lay bare the pervasive institutional weaknesses and attitudes that have created a “conspiracy of silence” around child sex abuse in India.  According to UNICEF, one in three rape victims in India is a child, and more than 7200 children are raped each year, with many more cases believed to go unreported. In 2007, a government-sponsored survey of 12,500 children in 13 states “reported serious and widespread sexual abuse,” but found that only 3% of the cases in which children said they had been abused had been reported to the police. (PHOTOS: Tens of Millions Gather at India’s Maha Kumbh Mela) That serious under-reporting is due in large part to how victims are treated once they do make the difficult choice to come forward. In four of the cases documented in the report, victims said doctors had used the much-maligned “finger test” to determine whether they had been raped or not. This type of examination is permitted under current Indian law but is of little<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67885&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s New Rape Laws Draw Flak from Rights Groups</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/04/indias-new-rape-laws-draw-flak-from-rights-groups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate over how to provide better legal protection to victims of sexual violence rages on in India, with rights groups vociferously objecting to a new antirape ordinance that the government enacted over the weekend. After being approved by Cabinet last week, India&#8217;s President Pranab Mukherjee signed a bill on Sunday designed to toughen up existing laws by permitting capital punishment in rape cases in which the victim is murdered or left in a &#8220;persistent vegetative state&#8221; and allowing harsher punishment for crimes like acid attacks, sexual harassment and stalking. The bill was no doubt envisioned as a quick, high-level response to the Dec. 16 gang rape that shocked this country and sent thousands of protesters to the streets to call for greater safety and justice for women. But rights groups have been quick to cast doubt on the move, calling it hasty and incomplete. On Jan. 23, a specially convened committee headed by former Supreme Court Chief Justice J.S. Verma, known as the Verma commission, submitted a 657-page report to the government suggesting a broad and ambitious rethink of Indian criminal law relating to sexual violence, calling for faster justice and harsher punishment. (PHOTOS: In India, a Rape Sparks Violent Protests and Demands for Justice) The commission made more than 80,000 recommendations in its report. Among its key recommendations was that marital rape be made a criminal offense punishable with prison time. It also called for other legal changes that spoke to more fundamental cultural shifts, such as including domestic helpers in a pending sexual-harassment bill, an end to the humiliating and maligned “two-finger” test by which a doctor examines whether a rape victim has been sexually active before being attacked, a crackdown on the informal male-run village governance bodies called khap panchayats that have often called for regressive action toward women in rural India, and for military members accused of sexual attacks to be tried in civil courts. (Read more of our coverage on the Verma commission here.) The ordinance signed over the weekend, which must be approved<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67143&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Scion Rises in India: How Rahul Gandhi Can Turn into a Political Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few in New Delhi have ever seen more of Rahul Gandhi then they’ve seen this week. The five-o’ clock shadow of the young political scion adorns billboards throughout India’s capital, heralding his anointment on Sunday as the Congress Party’s new Vice President. That the 42-year-old was being groomed to lead the party alongside his Italian-born mother and party president Sonia Gandhi has been a foregone conclusion for years in India. But as he slid into position for what is bound to be a grueling campaign ahead of national elections in 2014, the speech he gave at a party powwow in Jaipur this weekend was a rare and emotional commitment to the path that was laid out for him when he was born into India’s greatest political family. “The Congress Party is now my life. The people of India are my life,” Gandhi said. “And I will fight for the people of India and for this party. I will fight with everything I have.&#8221; It is going to be a tough one. It has been a tumultuous couple of years for the current Congress-led government, bookended by massive anticorruption protests in early 2011 and the recent wave of demonstrations over women&#8217;s rights after a brutal gang rape in New Delhi. In between, the Congress-led coalition has faced concerns at home and abroad over the health of the nation’s economy as GDP growth has dipped below 6%, and long periods of so-called policy paralysis in which a fractious Parliament spent more time bickering than passing the many laws that would bring economic and social reform the country needs. Where should Gandhi begin to convince voters that Congress is still the party to be running the country? (MORE: In Search of a New India) Luckily for him — or not — people in the capital have a thought or two about that. And the dominant theme in the chatter about the best move he can make to win voters over is pretty simple: speak up. After hearing the intensely private Gandhi reflect personally on his<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65316&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan&#8217;s Wave of Crises: Ahead of Elections, Islamabad Struggles to Put Out the Fires</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/17/pakistans-wave-of-crises-ahead-of-elections-islamabad-struggles-to-put-out-the-fires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders in Pakistan were thrown into crisis-management mode this week as tensions over border skirmishes with India spiked and observers worried aloud whether large protests in the capital were setting the stage for a soft coup ahead of elections. On Thursday, tens of thousands of protesters camped for the fourth day in front of Parliament in Islamabad, gathered under tarps and blankets in cold temperatures and heavy rain to listen to religious scholar Tahirul Qadri address the crowd. The Canadian-Pakistani antigraft crusader, who issued a fatwa against terrorism in 2010, led a march from Lahore to the capital earlier in the week. Calling the country’s leaders too corrupt to continue to rule, Qadri called for, among other things, the government to immediately dissolve its legislative bodies and set up a caretaker administration ahead of national polls scheduled for May. “This corrupt ruling mafia don&#8217;t want to listen to the poor people of Pakistan,” he tweeted out to some 22,000 followers on Thursday. The sit-in, beset by increasingly unsanitary conditions and reports of illness, was expected to disband by Thursday night as a government delegation reportedly entered talks with Qadri by late afternoon. According to several journalists&#8217; tweets, power went out during the talks in the metal container where Qadri has been based for the week. With or without electricity, what will come out of the conversation is unclear, as is what — or who — prompted Qadri to start this sudden people’s movement, given that the cleric lived in Canada for the past several years. The fact that he emerged in 1999 to publicly back the coup by former military chief Pervez Musharraf has some wondering whether he has shown up now with the military&#8217;s backing to help orchestrate a similar ouster. Both Qadri and the military have denied such speculations, and some analysts say sudden talk of a so-called soft coup took shape a little too quickly. &#8220;The military is bogged down in counterterrorism,&#8221; says Hasan Askari Rizvi, a security expert based in Lahore. &#8220;If they do anything, they will do it from<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=64239&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sexual Violence in India: How Long Will the Media&#8217;s Interest Last?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/14/sexual-violence-in-india-how-long-will-the-medias-interest-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been nearly a month of relentlessly grim news in India, as more and more details of December’s brutal sexual assault come to light alongside a daily barrage of new rape cases reported around the nation. On Jan. 12, a 29-year-old woman in the northern state of Punjab reported to police that she was abducted and raped by six men after taking a bus in the city of Gurdaspur. Almost simultaneously, seven men in the state of Haryana were arrested for allegedly confining and raping a woman repeatedly over a seven-month period. Two officials in the state of Chhattisgarh were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting underage residents at a school for tribal girls. Police in village in Uttar Pradesh told the press that a young man had been arrested after allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl. The list, unfortunately, goes on. Widespread sexual violence is in no way unique to India, nor is the nation witnessing a dramatic surge in violence against women since a 23-year-old medical student was beaten and raped on a bus in New Delhi on Dec. 16, and died two weeks later. What has changed dramatically in the past four weeks is the amount of space that these crimes, which experts say have been on the rise for years and are still grossly underreported, occupy in the public sphere. Just months ago, India’s English-language dailies would often mark a violent sexual assault in a blurb buried under a few pages of the latest political intrigue. Now the latest violent sexual assault is the latest political intrigue. Many here argue that is not a bad thing. The extensive media coverage of this month&#8217;s protests and the Dec. 16 assault, in which five of the six suspects appeared for the third time in court today in New Delhi, helped kick-start officials&#8217; efforts to improve safety in the capital. It has put the issue of sexual assault “on the political agenda, which has never, ever happened before this,” says Ranjana Kumari, director of the Center for Social Research in New Delhi. “Nobody<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=63675&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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