Trauma on the stand – when do we stop putting rape victims on trial?

Had done this piece for Femina magazine in 2010. Posting it here now because it is still relevant.

It isn’t hard to picture – a raped
woman seeks justice but is humiliated and harangued further as her ‘virtue’ is
called into question. It sounds like a tacky 1980s Bollywood film plot, doesn’t
it? The great tragedy is that if they didn’t get anything else right, in this
one respect, filmmakers