{"id":7286,"date":"2015-11-01T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T05:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=7286"},"modified":"2019-03-26T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:20:39","slug":"brushstrokes-women-in-indias-rape-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-women-in-indias-rape-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: Women In India&#8217;s Rape Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;7290&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p>The city that has come to be touted as the \u201crape capital&#8221; proves to be the ideal ground for festering debates and discourse over the safety of women in the city. In the lucrative media indulgence of tragedy, women seem to have been reduced to numbers and statistics. In her photo essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/news\/picture\/indias-women-defend-themselves?articleId=USRTR3CSS4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commissioned by Reuters<\/a>, Mansi Thapliyal shifts the lens back to focus on the faces behind these numbers \u2013 women negotiating spaces within the cityscape.<\/p>\n<p>Based in New Delhi and Rishikesh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mansithapliyal.com\/gallery\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mansi Thapliyal<\/a> is a freelance news and documentary photographer with an inclination towards covering issues concerning gender and the environment. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Time, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and the BBC, among others.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i><em>We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;7290&#8242;] The city that has come to be touted as the \u201crape capital&#8221; proves to be the ideal ground&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":7319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,548,7],"tags":[121,26,306,372],"class_list":{"0":"post-7286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-feminism","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-feminism","12":"tag-gender","13":"tag-mobility","14":"tag-rape"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7286"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16714,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions\/16714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}