Late last
night, after boarding a train in Jaisalmer, we arrived in Jodhpur at about
10:30. Jodhpur is a city that is bigger than Jaisalmer, but smaller than New
Delhi. It is also where we are staying at the Durag Niwas Guest House, which is
owned by a charity that helps to empower women. The name of the charity is
Sambhali Trust, and during the next week I will be interviewing it’s founder,
Govind Singh Rathore.
This
morning, while eating breakfast, I picked up a newspaper, and inside there were
at least three articles about the raping of women in India, in response to an
incident that occurred in New Delhi. From what I read in the newspaper, I gathered
that people are starting to realize that this problem of sexism is getting out
of control, and going as far as to say “Rape is not a sex crime; it is a gender
crime.”Standing inside the Sambhali Trust store in Jodhpur.
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