Bangladesh, Jan. 11 -- Protests were massive and loud on Dhaka university campus. Yet it must be admitted that the national revulsion and outrage at sexual violence perpetrated on a DU student fell far short of the desirable. Students of the premier university are indeed a force and united they can make things move. But what about the sex crimes that have now reached an epidemic proportion? Women, girls and even children and babies all across the country are falling victim to sexual aggression and yet the nation has been tolerating this as if collectively it has no positive role to play. Why?
There seems to be a psychological constraint on the part of a patriarchal society to go full steam against sexual violence against the so-called weak...