2021 saw the highest number of crimes against women ever recorded in India – that’s what recently released crime data revealed. The figures, recently released by the government, show a worrying trend, with a consistent year-on-year rise except in 2020 - the year when the Covid-19 pandemic swept India and a hard lockdown forced the country to shut down for months. In his address to the nation on India's 75th birthday last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a "change in the mentality" towards women and asked citizens to fight misogyny. But critics say the world's largest democracy gets a bad name because of the way victims and survivors are treated - they say they are stigmatised by the society, and often shamed by the police and judiciary too. The BBC mined India’s National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reports for the past six years to distil the data about crimes against women. Click on the link in our bio to see what we found – in 5 very revealing graphics. #india #women #violenceagainstwomen