Nirbhaya
Gang rape incident has completed one year. It has been a remarkable year for
the journey of gender discourses in India. In recent past, we have rarely seen
such a diversified debate on various aspects and issues of sexual violence
against women. Main stream media and other alternative
public spheres have also enthusiastically and overwhelmingly participated in
these discussions and debates and one has to admit that on several occasions,
these spheres gave decisive directions to the discourse of sexual violence.
With that, importance of last year also resides in the fact that different
connotations of these debates have constructed and developed a certain kind of
language, evaluation of which is largely ignored. This 'linguistic
construction' is so important that many relevant conclusions on the politics of
gender discourses can be drawn from it.
