Bhubaneswar, July 26 -- https://images.odishatv.in/uploadimage/library/16_9/16_9_0/recent_photo_1753525783.webp
Does her going to a pub, smoking hookah, wearing jeans, or partying late at night give anyone the right to rape her? The question is rhetorical, yet in India, it's asked far too often-by people, by media panels, by police officers, and even sometimes by judges. It emerges not out of curiosity but as an instrument of doubt, a veiled justification for the unforgivable. This culture of victim blaming and character assassination is not just cruel-it is dangerous. It does not merely reflect a lack of empathy; it enforces a mindset where the survivor becomes the accused, and the accused becomes the poor boy who was "misled."
There is ...