India has a femicide problem and doesn’t want to admit it. In a society built on honour and shame, women are instructed to be silent or muzzled into silence, forcing the issue of gender-based violence and discrimination deeper into the collective. But we shall not remain silent. Summoning the words of the inimitable Indian feminist activist Kamla Bhasin, whose own words were inspired by a feminist gathering in 1980s Pakistan, Bhasin writes: Aurat ka naraa, Azaadi; bacho ka naara, Azaadi — “The slogan of women — Freedom; the slogan of children — Freedom.” The recent rape and murder of a 31-year…

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