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Here’s Why The Biggest Slum In India Is Honoring A Fictional Rape Victim

Here’s Why The Biggest Slum In India Is Honoring A Fictional Rape Victim

by The Daily Eye Team June 3 2015, 5:26 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 42 secs

Ram Devineni has been thinking a lot lately about shakti — a word that translates loosely from the Sanskrit to “female power.” It’s a transformative concept in a country like India, where the highest profile criminal cases tend to revolve around sexual abuse. The brutal gang rape in 2012 of a student in Delhi led Devineni to create Priya’s Shakti, a ground breaking comic book that aims to inspire empathy for rape survivors in readers. His moment of inspiration came during a conversation with a Delhi police officer, who seemed to blame the victim for her fate. Disturbed by the cop’s view — essentially, that good girls don’t walk alone at night — Devineni set about trying to write a new cultural narrative.

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Piroj Wadia


PIROJ WADIA is a journalist of long standing, she was Assistant Editor for Cine Blitz and  The Daily,  and   edited TV & Video World, India’s first & only authentic television magazine. She is  equally ardent about television as  she is about films, and critiques both. She has been keenly watching and observing television since the 1990s and has witnessed the industry’s growth and sea changes.   She has  served on the jury for the Indian Television Academy (ITA)  and the  Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA); and on the script committee of the Children’s Film Society, India (CFSI). Currently, she is  researching on the contribution of the Parsis to Indian cinema.


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