The list of complaints made by female students living at the women’s hostel in the south of Mumbai is depressingly long and goes back years. The women were regularly harassed by male staff, by the drug addicts who hung around outside and other men who made crude gestures. But whenever the women complained, they were threatened with eviction or simply ignored.
It makes what happened to Rani*, a second-year computer science student at a higher education college in the west Indian city, feel inevitable.
