“This is not to say that patriarchy does not exist in the South but it does not do so in such a toxic fashion.”
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Why a marked North-South geographical divide where heinous crimes against women are concerned? Rape accounts for 12 per cent of all crimes against women but NCRB data shows that while Delhi accounts for 22 per cent of rape cases– three reported every day– Tamil Nadu has a rate of less than one percent having reported twelve cases in a year.