The Delhi gang rape which has shocked the nation and the public protest which has exposed the ruling government and administration as inept and outdated has also raised some impossible questions about us as a society. The sheer brutality of the assault on the young woman and her male companion is so shocking, that it cannot be a subject of discussion for us. The shortcomings of the government, the excessive force used by the police on protestors in Delhi, the mewling of the prime minister and the mysterious mutterings of the Union home minister are easier to talk about than a woman being raped and injured to such an extent that her intestines had to be removed and she is barely hanging on.