Alleged gang-rape and forcible cremation of a nine-year-old in Delhi is another devastating instance of dangers Indian women face. That she was Dalit matters, because it shows how caste is a brutal reality. Don’t diss ‘politicisation’ of such issues. In democracies, politics is the prime instrument for ensuring justice.
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