India, May 8 -- It is perhaps India's saddest secret. I saw it in Tamil movies of yore often with Rajinikanth as the hero. The scene: A feudal landlord is being driven in a horse carriage, bullock cart or car through his lands. He spots a woman working in his fields and fancies her. He sends word through one of his lackeys that the woman needs to appear at his farmhouse that evening. He takes her into his bedroom and rapes her. The scene typically shows the woman pleading with him to leave her alone. The words are different in different Indian tongues - Ayya, Anna, Hukum, Sahib, Mahoday - but they all convey power and a feudal hierarchy where women are viewed as the property of the landowner, much like his cattle or crops. He takes what he wants because he is entitled....