There was slaughter, and pillage, and an epidemic of savage rape.
Sexual assault and violence against women is an enduring problem in India that came to the fore this winter, when the country was galvanized by the savage rape — and subsequent death — of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi.
Mr. Dumont's film enters the mind of a policeman who may or not be responsible for the crime he is investigating: the savage rape and murder of a young girl.
The low-budget independent film, based on real events that culminated in the murder of Brandon in Falls City, Neb., in 1993, features nudity, sex scenes and a savage rape.
Burke treats his favorite theme with unusual depth and considerable sorrow in JOLIE BLO NS BOUNCE (Simon & Schuster, $25) by linking two savage rape-murders in a Louisiana bayou town with the casual sexual sadism once practiced on the plantation of the town'S most prominent family.
This tightly-packed south Delhi settlement of single storey dwellings is now under a cloud of shame - because four of the six arrested for the savage rape and killing of the young woman live here.
When the unidentified woman died in a Singapore hospital early on Saturday, the victim of a savage rape on a moving bus in the capital, Delhi, it was time again, many said, to ask: why does India treat its women so badly?
