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Insulting to both

While Mumbai's citizens continue to protest the Marine Drive rape and demand that safety be restored in the city, the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna has suggested that it is not the attackers but young women clad in provocative clothing who are responsible for the increasing crimes against women. By saying so, it has not only degraded women. It has also insulted men. The argument implies that all men are beasts waiting to rape women. Hence women must beware.

K. Rangarajan,
Mumbai

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It is no doubt important to inculcate confidence and fearlessness in girls (Letters, April 28). But it is also important to establish help lines that distressed youngsters can call when they are harassed by policemen. If the boys, who were accompanying the girl when the constable intimidated her and forced her to enter the chowki, had been bold enough to seek the help of some passers-by or a help line had been available to them, the girl could have perhaps been spared the ordeal.

Kancharla Murali Krishna,
Kharagpur, West Bengal

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