Long before the gang-rape of Nirbhaya in 2012, there was Rinku Patil, a student who was burned alive in her classroom at the school she went to in Ulhasnagar. She had been harassed by a certain Haresh Patel, who had been pestering her to marry him, and, when she rejected his advances, he set her on fire. "I remembered the incident from my childhood," says theatre practitioner Rasika Agashe. "It was startling that so many people were there in the school during the time of the incident, and, yet, no one tried to stop it," she says.