Politics of Emotion of the Nirbhaya and Kathua Rape and Murder cases: the middle-class hypocrisy and the contours of reception

In India’s recent history, the months of December and January would be marked forever with black ink. On December 16, 2012, a 22-year-old physiotherapy intern, dubbed “Nirbhaya” by the Indian media was gang-raped inside a bus she boarded in the national capital, Delhi, along with a male friend. In January 2018, an eight year old from Kathua […]