Since public memory is notoriously short, and the human mind forgets events and incidents that fetch no joy on being recalled or are far removed from our lives, it’s worthwhile to retell stories that would otherwise rarely, if ever, be retold. So let’s go back in time to November 1973.

A young nurse at Mumbai’s KEM Hospital, Aruna Shanbaug, was sodomised and robbed by a ward boy, Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, in the basement of the hospital. To stop her from screaming, he wrapped an iron dog chain around her neck, choking her throat, cutting off oxygen and blood supply to her brain and causing irreparable damage. Aruna’s tormentor, Sohanlal, faced charges of assault and robbery — the fact that she had been raped was initially suppressed. He got seven years in jail.