Another day another rape and, of course, political points are flying fast and thick. Yet again, the BJP says West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee must resign. Yet again, Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) is running its own little side-show for stupidest statement. In the running so far:

There are denials and retractions. But there is no boxing back the misogyny.

Kalyan Banerjee is wrong. It is precisely the job of the college to provide a safe space to all students from friends and strangers. It is most certainly the job of the state to ensure women are safe everywhere, in the college where she studies or hospital where she works.

Is Madan Mitra suggesting that women should be locked up at home after hours? Maybe he doesn’t know that one in three women is subject to violence from her own family.

Perhaps Manas Bhunia has normalized rape as a ‘small incident’ in a country where 86 cases are reported every day. These are very much India’s shame; a key reason why the US state department recently issued a warning to single women against travelling to India.

Not one to shy away from battle, Mahua Moitra takes the high moral ground saying misogyny cuts across party lines: “We condemn these disgusting comments no matter who makes them,” she tweets. Moitra has a bit of a history of bad blood with Kalyan Banerjee who then crosses a line by making

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