S**t (Indian) Politicians Say...

“Instances of woman behavior are not unknown that a feeble ‘no’ may mean a ‘yes’. If the parties are strangers, the same theory may not be applied…But same would not be the situation when parties are known to each other, are persons of letters and are intellectually/academically proficient, and if, in the past, there have been physical contacts. In such cases, it would be really difficult to decipher whether little or no resistance and a feeble ‘no’, was actually a denial of consent.” Delhi High Court Judge Ashutosh Kumar The padam 'Indendu vaccitivira' by Kshetrayya, a poet of the seventeenth century, starts with the woman saying to her lover, 'Why have you come here? Go away.' The conceit is that the man must have arrived at her house by mistake, somehow, as his mistress sarcastically points out, losing his way in the bright moonlight. In the little world of this dance, 'the parties are not strangers' and 'are persons of letters and are intellectual...