Only days before she would have celebrated the new year, a 23-year old student in New Delhi, India was brutally beaten and raped on a bus by a group of six men. Thirteen days after the attack, she died. The story of her life and death have now been told and re-told so many times in Indian media that the sensationalism outweighs the fact that this was the actual narrative of an actual person. However, it’s now clear that this was an incident that gripped the national consciousness in a way that countless other, similar sexual assaults did not.
Bollywood Satirized: An Artist Examines Sexism in India
Artist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew originally created her portfolio Bollywood Satirized during what she calls her “angry young woman” years in the late ’90s. In the … Read more
