Baxi talks about the grave problem of sexual violence and its various forms faced by women in Delhi. She gives background on the circumstances under which these crimes take place and how the government fails to pay any heed to the prevailing lack of safety the city faces and how dangerous it still is for women to move around in the city with no safeguards at all; she says that the administration in a way acts as an enabler to sexual violence and rape culture in the city. It is very surprising to note the threshold at which the IPC places the crime of rape at, by calling it an 'offence against the human body' and not considering it at the same level as an act of violence; instead it is thought of as mere unconsented sexual relations, therefore putting the women at a position wherein they're thought of as objects and merely satisfy the lust of the perpetrator. Rape culture in India has evolved rapidly as a result of the presence of an outrightly blatant patriarchal society in which the entitled entity of men have prevailed in most offices of importance and positions of power, which has led to poor numbers in female representation and this is directly reflected in policy and law making. In the end it is the perpetrators who are making the laws for the victims. The only way to overcome and get past this rape culture at the very root level is for males and females to act in pursuance of the same goal that is a no tolerance policy towards even the smallest acts of sexual misconduct.
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