No country for young women

Whatever else one might think of the anti-corruption movements led by Anna Hazare or Arvind Kejriwal, they give the lie to the conventional notion that the middle class is politically apathetic. Likewise, unprecedented public protests that have broken out in Delhi against the horrific gang rape of a young woman in a moving bus — leading to baton charges, use of water cannon, lockdown of central Delhi and closure of Metro stations — open a crack in the narrative that the reason such horrific crimes against women happen is because society doesn't care. 

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