As the memory of the bus attack recedes, there is a danger that the impetus for real change will fade too.
![Activists burn an effigy representing the rapists convicted in the gang rape in a moving bus in New Delhi, in Hyderabad, India [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/e300199e79c64405a05fd7784f7d0fa4_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Aarti Betigeri is an Australian journalist living in New Delhi. She writes on South Asian affairs.
As the memory of the bus attack recedes, there is a danger that the impetus for real change will fade too.
![Activists burn an effigy representing the rapists convicted in the gang rape in a moving bus in New Delhi, in Hyderabad, India [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/e300199e79c64405a05fd7784f7d0fa4_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)