**Note: As per a report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in 2023, a total of 29,670 cases of rape were registered in India. Among them, 852 were minors, and 28,821 were victims above the age of 18. Rajasthan recorded the highest number of cases, followed by Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, respectively.

There is no simple way to talk about sexual trauma. It doesn’t sit neatly in memory. It doesn’t fade because time passes. And most of all, it doesn’t stay “in the past.”

For many women, the hardest part begins long after the assault is over, when the world expects them to move on, but their own body doesn’t feel like home anymore.

This brings back the memory of a very touching line said by Shashank Arora’s Kabir in Made in Heaven 2: “the wounds will heal, even though the scar

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