India, Dec. 9 -- In a land where the majority of people, by faith, believe in Female God and her powers being no less than that of the Male God's - as a philosophy and mythology, the rampant rapes of women represent one of the many paradoxes of India. The country that aspires to be anointed as a global Super Power is today woefully listed as one of the least safe for women.
The first week of December was particularly traumatic for most Indians as two women living in two different corners of the country were raped and burnt alive by their tormentors. In Hyderabad, 27-year old veterinarian died at the hands of four men who waylaid her as she was waiting for help for her scooter's flat tyre on city outskirts; she was gang-raped and burnt aliv...