“What does that fire remember? The screams of Satis
Dragged to their husband’s pyres and brides burnt alive;
The wails of caste-crossed lovers put to death,
The tongue-chopped shrieking of raped women.
This has happened before, this will happen again.
Manu said once, so his regiment repeat today:
All women are harlots, all women are base;
All women seek is sex, all they shall have is rape.
Manu gives men a licence plate, such rape-mandate.
This has happened before, this will happen again.”
-Rape Nation by Meena Kandasamy