I was a bit confused by seeing the news about anti-rape protests in India. Who are they protesting against? This makes about as much sense as protest against, say, stupidity.
Seeing calls for stricter punishment (up to death sentence) was also discouraging—it is not the strictness of the punishment it is the inevitability of it that makes the difference.
The current protest is not against anything in particular. Repetition of such incidents,to brutality of this particular case and the harassment women face on a daily basis made this the last straw that broke the camel's back. The call for death sentence and chemical castration is just a knee-jerk reaction. The politicians are supporting this demand because solving the problem much harder than stipulating harsh punishments.
