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The recent rape and murder of a trainee doctor after a 36-hour hospital shift has, according to India鈥檚 top court, 鈥渟hocked the conscience of the nation".

It has produced protests, strikes and outrage and has focussed conversations on what it鈥檚 like to be female in India, both at work and during everyday life. Arunima, for instance, lives close to the hospital, in Kolkata, where the murder happened. For her, even travelling on public transport has been traumatising after being touched inappropriately by another passenger.

鈥淭hat person was a father,鈥� she said. 鈥淗e had his own daughter literally sitting right on his lap. I couldn鈥檛鈥� When I got off the bus, I couldn鈥檛 believe myself that that person would do really that. It just really broke me from within".

Host Luke Jones also hears from women doctors about security issues at their own hospitals in Ahmedabad, Gujarat - such as inadequate facilities to change scrubs or to sleep after long shifts - as well as attitudes towards women generally like victim blaming and "moral policing".

Two men also share their thoughts on what is to blame for how some Indian men treat women and what changes they feel need to be made within their society.

A Boffin Media production in partnership with the OS team.

(Photo: Dr Nandini Vaghani in India. Credit: Nandini Vaghani)