article_snippet: a medical student in Delhi had been returning from a cinema with a male friend on a Sunday evening when a medical student in Delhi accepted a lift from the off-duty charter bus.
article_snippet: Protestors hold candles in New Delhi during a night vigil following the 23-year-old student's gang-rape and murder.
article_snippet: For filmmaker Ms Udwin it was not the horror of the attack that compelled filmmaker Ms Udwin to make filmmaker Ms Udwin documentary, but the outpouring of anger in India at the social conditions that allowed it to happen. '
article_snippet: When news of this gang-rape hit our TV screens in December 2012, I was as shocked and upset as we all are when faced with such brazen abandon of the norms of ‘civilised’ society,' filmmaker Ms Udwin said. '
article_snippet: But what actually inspired me to commit to the harrowing and difficult journey of making a Bollywood film of the same name where the protagonist fought for justice after a rape ordeal was the optimism occasioned by the reports that followed this gang-rape. '
article_snippet: Courageous and impassioned ordinary men and women of India braved the December freeze to protest in unprecedented numbers, withstanding an onslaught of teargas shells, lathi charges and water canons, to make heard their cry of "enough is enough". '
article_snippet: In this regard, India led the world by example.
article_snippet: In my lifetime, I can’t recall any other country standing up with such commitment and determination for women’s rights.'
highlights_snippet: India's Daughter will be on BBC Four on Sunday, March 8, International Women's Day.