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Is India Still Safer For Women??!

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Greetings Visitor, I wrote the below article by myself for my college's semester presentation. I would like to share this article with you and would welcome your comments and point of view. And it goes something like this... Let us start off with a great proverb in Tamil language: “ Pengal nam naattin kangal ” which means that women are the eyes of our nation. But the recent atrocities don’t prove of the proverb much. While I was searching for little information on this topic, I had just typed “Violences against” in the Google search menu when in the second option itself it showed the option “Violences against women in India”. So, we can imagine on the frequencies and magnitudes of the atrocities taking place against women in India. In a newspaper I read an article on girls being kidnapped from the eastern parts of Maharastra and sold for money, And sometimes even in exchange of a Buffalo to the men in the regions of Madhya Pradesh. The reason was found out