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Anita Anand presents a special programme on the role of women in India.听She talks听to Bollywood stars including Shabana Azmi and Sharmila Tagore, students, writers and campaigners about the听pressures that women face, and the recent attempts to redress their status, following the brutal rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi.听听She听is joined in the studio by Dr Ranjana Kumari, President of Women Power Connect, the largest coalition of women's organisations in India, Mallika Dutt, Founder and President of Breakthrough, a听charity which campaigns for global human rights, and Rupa Jha,听presenter of 麻豆社 Hindi's 'Global India'.听听

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India has a wide range of women鈥檚 movements ranging from Apne Aap Women Worldwide to The We Can End All Violence Against Women campaign to more recent movements like Slutwalk and the Pink Chuddi campaign. Have these groups helped to foster the street protests that have took place after the bus attack?

The government set up the Verma committee to review rape laws, after the bus attack. Many were surprised by the breadth and scale of the committee鈥檚 recommendations but what genuine chance will they have of becoming law?

Bollywood films are often sexist in their treatment of women. Does this reflect India鈥檚 general treatment of women or endorse sexist attitudes?

Experience of life in rural Bihar.