The New York Review of Books - October 10, 2013
“I am not a boy, I am a girl,” wrote a twenty-one-year-old woman in
Delhi, called Jyoti, who was studying at a medical college to be a
physiotherapist. This was in a text message sent in December 2010 to a
twenty-six-year-old man who worked in information technology and who had
initially taken Jyoti to be a man. They met, and what began as a casual
communication became a close friendship.
Two years later, on December 16, 2012, after they had seen a film, The Life of Pi,
Jyoti was gang-raped with extreme brutality, and the man was severely
beaten as he tried to protect her. They had been tricked into boarding a
bus that seemed to be going their way and that had offered them a ride.
It was a closed bus with darkened windows in which five determined
rapists were waiting for their prey, with their impatience heightened,
it is alleged, by the drugs they had taken. The battered bodies of the
abused pair were dropped off on a lonely street, and by the time Jyoti
received medical attention, she was on her way to death from the
injuries, despite specialized medical care in Delhi, and later in
Singapore.
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