By Deepika Jaitley
Area 14/8
'Rape Capital' Delhi, sprawling metropolis and epicenter of the Government of India, is also victim to elements of endemic sexual violence. Earlier this year an English local newspaper published statistics under the headline: Shame on Delhi Men. "The dazzling streets of Delhi hide a dark truth," it said, publishing the results of a poll revealing that 66% of the capital's women were molested between two and five times last year and that 70% of men "looked the other way" when it happened. What happens when they don't was amply demonstrated earlier this year when a 55-year-old rickshaw driver in West Delhi was beaten to death for "defending his daughter's modesty" from a group of drunks.
Cracking down on sexual predators, in what is the most dangerous city for women in India, hasn't borne much fruit considering Delhi's stereotypical policeman is a figure of legend, renowned for sloth, corruption, brutality and casual misogyny. To counter pandemic violence charities of all sorts have come to the fore one of which is Whypoll a local charity which has devised a smart phone app "Fight Back" that is to be launched in November this year. Whypoll will function as an SOS alert device -- sending out a text message with a GPS location to up to five people, including police, and as a post on Facebook and Twitter. This app will be available to download from the Whypoll website for a small fee and will be supported by a range of smart phones such as Nokia and BlackBerry.
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