@womangat_ and I have been busy. This is what we have collected as part of @ViolenceLab and the work on collective public violence in India.
thepolisproject.com/gang-rapes-in-…
This is the interactive and annotated map based on geocoded data. Requests for our geocoded data file can be made directly to me.
public.tableau.com/views/Reported…
This is a snapshot of what we could capture based on public reporting of gang rapes in English language newspapers. The actual number of cases is in all likelihood going to be a lot more. But we were able to break down gang rapes by month and location.
The NCRB data gives us annual totals for states and specific districts and metros. What we need is data approximating cases in real time, not data released a year later. So we tried this out to see what we find.
State-wise and month-wise capture of what we recorded, a total of 158 incidents between Jan and Sept 2020.
Thus far, there were 95 cases out of 158 that we could identify where the gang-rape victim was a minor. In some cases we couldn't tell the age based on the reporting.
There is a place for YOU to help us. Please report gang-rape cases from local newspapers in regional languages to us. We have captured very little as compared to what we know if out there. We can translate the articles you send us and capture those incidents in our data.
The motivation behind collecting this data is to see if we could break down an annual reported total by dates/months event locations and build case specific victim and perpetrator profiles.
Basically I wanted to see if there is a better way of tabling rape/gang-rape data which lends itself to analysis and research better than a state or district level total.

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4 Oct
Thoughts on #Hathras

1. A violent gang rape is aimed at killing the victim and is a type of lynching. Don’t ever forget that.

2. We cannot expect any justice from a govt whose members garland lynchers and pose with them.
3. The Indian state has a VERY long history of saying a deceased rape victim was not raped. Kunan Poshpora, Thangjam Manorama, Unnao, Shopian, Kathua and now Hathras.

4. The state is interested in preserving itself and reproducing its power. In the past
the Indian state has created doubts about the credibility of rape cases to leave the issue murky and divided

5. For the first time however we have a situation where the power structure is openly populated by those who encourage lynchings and regressive thinking in the garb of
Read 6 tweets
30 Sep
Just want to remind everyone that the day that the #Hathras gang rape happened (Sep 14), a health care worker was also gang-raped in a moving car in Meerut.

thehindu.com/news/national/…
I looked over the violence data we (RA and I) are compiling and realised we had two incidents for Sep 14. The identity of the first victim remains unknown.
We also have this gang-rape from Sep 3, 2020 in UP in which the victim is a 15 year old girl

thehindu.com/news/national/…
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24 Sep
Watching all this data warring between Indians and their govt.

A few things

1. Don’t wish for some magic power to do data work. We are not going to get a clear picture about anything. Disinformation is a part of governance right now. We know it. It’s not going to change.
2. Pick something you want to see data collected on and start doing it in your spare time. Don’t wait for someone else to do it.

3. If you’re not trained in data collection reach out to the brilliant folks on twitter who are. Let them streamline it for you and instruct you.
4. Data collection isn’t easy. That’s why we leave it to folks or agencies with many resources. This is an unprecedented time in India. We need data to get a clear picture about a lot of things.

5. So hop to it. There are no resources coming and no help.
Read 4 tweets
14 Sep
While everyone was distracted by the typical attention getting stories starring someone controversial and high profile, this happened:

On June 26, a new force for policing in UP was announced which was supposed to resemble the CISF. This is called the UP Special Security Force.
There was a notification issued Sunday by the UP govt. which has made this is a real entity. It’s going to cost 1800 correct INR. In the first three months it’s going to have about 9919 recruits.

Plan is to deploy this force in and around sensitive buildings/infrastructures.
Private companies can hire its services.

Warrantless searches and arrests are allowed for this force. This is a clause also found in the CISF powers under specific circumstances.

First phase will have five battalions.
Read 5 tweets
10 Sep
Saw a debate raging about whether intercourse with someone by promising marriage to her constitutes rape. I’ve tried to respond to this but I’ll lay it all out again, a bit simply.

There are two things we need to think about before dismissing the claim.
1. Consent in Indian society
2. How we’ve been trained to see rape only as something that involves a clear lack of consent.

Here’s the thing. Men and women in India are treated differently when it comes to consent. When a man says no, everyone agrees. When a woman says no
It is seen as something negotiable. Our society does not have a good relationship with women who say NO. I’ve explored this idea in an oped somewhere using marital rape as an example, and why there’s so much resistance in India against criminalising it.
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9 Sep
Thread on recent spate of family annihilation/mass suicide by families. In 2019 there were 180 cases recorded by NCRB across India. This year will possibly see more recorded. Will just be posting links here. If you find or know of more cases, just post the link here for me.
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