‘Normal’ men don’t rape—certainly not your sons or lovers, brothers or fathers, chachas* or mamas†; neither do ‘respectable’ men from ‘good families’. Only gangs of monstrous strangers do. (In actual fact, approximately 95 per cent of rape survivors know their rapists.286) The streets are unsafe, especially at night, and certainly without chaperone. Home is the safest of the ‘sheltered’ spaces. Some clothes (or the lack of) cause rape. (As do eating chowmein287 and having mobile phones288, if some of our Khap Panchayats are to be believed.)
