Pratiksha Baxi in her piece “Rape Cultures in India” tries to highlight the political and judicial failure of India in having any form of concrete framework to address incidents of aggravated sexual assault, which in turn has led to a certain normalization of sexual offences in the country. She expresses her belief in the adoption of a stance of solidarity by men and women of the country, irrespective of their social or economic standing, whereby there exists a ‘heightened intolerance’ against any form of sexual violence, which can serve as a ‘social force’ in tackling, if not bringing down right away, the institutionalization of rape cultures in the country. Baxi talks about this institutionalization in where she discusses the aid rapists receive from the way cities are planned, without adequate measures for the prevention of sexual offences, or when she talks about the politicization of sexual violence, where most political actors convert these offences into techniques for party politics, instead of challenging the social, political and legal mechanisms of shaming, humiliating and boycotting rape survivors.
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