Rapes of Women Show Clash of Old and New India

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Women from northeastern India protested last November after a girl was raped in New Delhi.

By LYDIA POLGREEN

GHAZIABAD, India — The young lovers met at a secluded spot next to a field of wheat at the edge of this sprawling suburb of New Delhi, where the timeless India of mustard fields and bullock carts abuts the frantically rising apartment towers of the budding middle class. They went seeking solitude, but instead found themselves at the violent cusp of old India and new.  

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