The comic Priya’s Shakti is helping to educate the country on rape culture.
Documentary filmmaker Ram Devineni was in India during the rape and ensuing death of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012 and the protests that followed.
A silent antirape protest in Delhi in January 2013.
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He said it was clear to him that many Indians had the idea that women who didn't abide by certain standards of behavior were somehow provoking men to rape them, and that it was the women's fault instead of the rapists.
"I did not really realize gender inequality or violence against India was a problem until this time," said Devineni, who was born in India but grew up in New Jersey.
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