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Acid Attacks On the Rise In India Leaving Horribly Disfigured Women In Their Wake

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Acid attacks are on the rise in Bangalore, leaving a trail of disfigured and often disabled women who, until recently, could find little sympathy among the public and next to no support from the state. Not much is done to combat the problem, with acid still cheap and readily available in shops and police unwilling to interfere in 'domestic' disputes. But since Sushma, Verma, Sanjana and Mallige started campaigning for better rights for the victims of acid attacks in 2003, things in the state of Karnataka are changing for the better

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Women in India are in a pretty bad place, particularly as the nation struggles with its ideas of what a woman's place is in their society.

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