https://www.scmp.com/rss/326931/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Dibyesh Anand Dibyesh Anand In recent years, India has witnessed a disturbingly high volume of sex crimes – so much so that when the rape and murder of Asifa, an eight-year-old girl from a Muslim nomadic community in Kathua, in the restive Jammu and Kashmir province, came to light three months ago, it was not a major news story right away. Asifa’s family was too poor to matter. The perpetrators belonged to the dominant Hindu community and had political and bureaucratic backing. Her being a Muslim in a region marked by... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2142388/how-rape-exposes-conflict-between-two-visions-india?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2142388/how-rape-exposes-conflict-between-two-visions-india?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:15:45 +0000