Foreign Correspondent

India: On Trial (2013x5)

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Even in a place where women and girls are, so often, treated appallingly it was beyond belief. The case of Jyoti and the bus trip home that became a hell-ride of unspeakable sexual violence and inhuman brutality. It stopped India dead in its tracks. Protests rose up screaming ‘enough is enough’, while the outside world was shocked by the scale of India’s endemic, rampant sex crime. Will the plight of one woman change a nation’s shameful ways? The case of Jyoti may just be a turning point for all.