Opinion: Kolkata Rape Case Has Invoked Misogyny As Usual. But Men, This Is Not About You. Please Sit Down!

Doctors and students protest against the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata.

Source : PTI

It was 2012 once again, in 2024, when on August 9 we woke up to the news of a woman doctor’s brutal rape and murder, while on duty, in one of Kolkata’s oldest hospitals, the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The news sent a shockwave through the nation — at least among its women. They took to the streets in awe-worthy numbers on the eve of India’s 78th Independence Day, almost intuitively like they had done in 2012, when the heinous murder of a young paramedic student