New Bollywood film highlights the dangers behind a lack of toilets in India itv.com

You have to feel for women in many parts of rural India. Not only do they live in a culture where it is deemed acceptable to urinate and defecate outside, but predatory men, incredibly, take the opportunity to pounce and assault them when they are performing this most natural and basic of rituals.

Sushila, assaulted when she went outside to the fields near her home, sums it up. Men can simply get on a motorbike and drive off to find a quiet place to go to the toilet outdoors, but for women who feel unable to go too far from home, with households and children to get ready for school, simply feel forced to slip outside under cover of dark nearby, sometimes to a place where people pass by, where men jeer or do worse.