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PBS NewsHour | Indian Women Share Sense of Powerlessness Over Rape | PBS

Duration: 05:13
Program: PBS NewsHour #10528
Broadcast Date: Dec. 28, 2012

A brutal gang rape in New Delhi may help force a sea change in India, a thriving democracy that is also a very conservative society based on a diversity of old traditions. Ray Suarez talks to Miranda Kennedy, author of "Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India," about the taboos of coming forward as a rape victim.

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Post Date: December 28, 2012