A set of recent incidents involving gruesome rapes of women across the country has yet again raised several questions about Indian society and judiciary. We at The Quint believe that a rape survivor’s life doesn’t end when she is raped. And that even if our institutions - law, the judiciary, the hospitals - are failing a rape survivor, we as a society need to step up. And keep the fight going. We are publishing this article originally published on 24 June 2016 from The Quint’s archives as part of our #KeepFighting campaign.
As a feminist, I have watched the controversy around Salman Khan’s rape comment with absolute rage, so a warning is in order before you proceed, dear reader.
If you are expecting another opinion piece educating Salman Khan about how ‘rape’ means a violent, sexual assault not to be used as a throwaway comment describing physical exhaustion (something which a public figure with his kind of fanatical following should have already known), I will have to disappoint you.
I don’t want to educate Salman Khan about rape, sexual assault or what it actually feels like to be raped in India. And I couldn’t care less about his mythical, forthcoming apology.