Writing with Fire

Starting, ball park, 1500 BCE four social hierarchy castes (priests, warriors, traders, laborers) were instituted in India, oh, and something even lower, Dalits. So impure, deemed untouchable, they were excluded from the hierarchy. Female Dalits had it even worse.

2002 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh a newspaper (Khabar Lahariya) was started to bring into the open the abuse of Dalit women where it is common for these women to be raped multiple times by men in their villages. Police often do nothing.

Film quotes: Journalism is the essence of democracy. Women face the greatest injustice everywhere. Sometimes I think it's a sin to be born a woman. First a burden to her parents then a slave to her husband. Many rape cases are rooted in the idea of lost honor. In India the family suffers socially if the daughter doesn't marry. Since 2014 40+ journalists have been killed in India; one of the worst countries.