For God’s sake, what is going on? Remember: A young Pakistani girl is shot in the head for trying to educate herself and others like her. Also remember: a 23-year-old Indian female medical student was beaten, gang-raped and thrown out of a bus like a piece of old rubbish in New Delhi and subsequently died. And these are just two of countless stories told and untold then and since.
Here too it seems not a day, and certainly not a week, passes without our stomachs being turned by appalling news of women cruelly abused, beaten and, often enough,
