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Editorial: No country for women

The Kolkata incident is yet more proof that little has changed in the reality of rape in India since the Nirbhaya horror in 2012. Incidents of rape have only increased from 24,900 in 2012 to 31,516 in 2022, an increase of over 25 per cent. Police records show that 86 rapes occur in India every day but the country by and large sleeps untroubled by the odium of being ‘the rape capital of the world’, a statistically inaccurate but sentimentally apt description.