A man lies near a gravestone with the picture of the deceased doctor from RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata, allegedly raped and murdered on August 9. Melancholic music plays in the background. A public service announcement (PSA) shows a state police’s SOS feature allowing officials to track someone’s phone [with their permission] and take action if the passenger stops responding to calls, messages. Captioned “Every Woman Should Watch”, the clip, shared by R Madhavan, predictably puts the onus of women’s safety on… women. Twitter accounts and Facebook pages are liberally circulating screenshots of rape-revenge, vigilante films like Simmba (2018) and Maharaja (2024) that echo and endorse the emotionally charged sentiments of our society. Dozens of influencers have uploaded cleverly worded “explainers” on what happened at RG Kar Medical College, each claiming to have “exclusive” facts and some of them reeking of political bias.