As a professor at the Centre for Criminology and Justice at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), and the vice chairperson of the Indian Society of Criminology, Dr Vijay Raghavan is one of the India’s foremost experts on the subject. He tells me: “Making a pass at a woman is normalized, seen as part of socialization, a transition to masculinity, acceptable. But when the same logic is extended, crossing the boundary to become rape… the rapist is granted a villainous identity. The otherization of the rapist, who is seen as a demon, is a loophole that exists in locating faults in the
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