Despite the small sample of people studied, researcher Dr Anuradha Bose says the figures are representative of rates throughout India.

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Anuradha Bhagwati, executive director of the Service Women's Action Network, said that official figures showed fewer than one in five service members accused of sexual assault "sees the inside of a courtroom".

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Dr Anuradha Patel, an anaesthesiologist at the New Jersey Medical School who offers children games before surgery, says the playtime is more effective at calming them down than reassurances from their parents.

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"Not just ongoing violence, which everybody thinks about, but even when it's over, there's something about what happens that seems to have a lingering effect that we don't quite understand yet, " said Dr. Anuradha Paranjape, co-author of the study and associate professor at Temple University School of Medicine.

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