Two young Indian women have released a rap video protesting against rape that has picked up a fair amount of attention on social networking sites and YouTube. Uppekha Jain and Pankhuri Awasthi call themselves the 'Bombaebs' and appeal in their video for people in India to do more to fight what they see as a rape culture. "Rape and all these atrocities against women that are going on currently in our country is a topic of hot discussion right now. Both Pankhuri and I have faced some of the issues that have come up in our video. So we said let's be the voice for other women who might not be able to speak about it and let's encourage everybody to start speaking about it. Now it has gone across the nation, which we are so thankful for but what we didn't expect was it to go worldwide," said Jain. A rape is reported on average every 21 minutes in India, and acid attacks, domestic violence and molestation against women are common. There was also an infamous case in December 2012 when a... ( More) | 
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