According to a recent survey conducted among different nations at the global level, by Thomson Reuters Foundation, an N.G.O., India has been ranked as the most dangerous place for women in the world. Due to the high risk of sexual violence and regressive traditions prevailing within the patriarchal system, the living conditions of women in India are horrible and alarming. Women, along with the other marginalized sections of the society are placed at the lowest tiers of the hierarchical or pyramidal power structure. Capitalism extended its roots in Indian soil without properly dismantling the rotten and degenerated remnants of feudalism and the anti-women traits of both these systems enter into clandestine conspiracy to victimize women in this country. Women, irrespective of their class and caste status, enjoy only secondary social status and are relegated to the margins as far as power and position are concerned. But undoubtedly, according to their situations, the ways of exploitation vary and the rate of ignominy and sufferings they encounter is different from one section to the other. The rate of domestic violence is above 70% in the country. Under the Modi regime, the atrocities perpetrated against women including brutal gang rapes escalate at a shocking rate. In the context of Kathua Rape, a highly deplorable and heinous crime committed on an eight year old Muslim girl, many activists and people endowed with a humanitarian concern for others largely participated in rallies and shouted the slogan, ”Is this a Republic or Rape-public?”. Women are being displaced from the public sphere and there is the systematic erasure of the presence of women from all walks of life. In the case of parliamentary democracy, women are far more inferior as far as their rate of representation is concerned. The highest percentage of women members of Indian parliament is a meager one of only 11%. Women’s uninhibited presence in the public sphere and political activities is indeed an inevitable pre-condition for women’s emancipation and empowerment, but the traditional and conventional values, customs and practices become obstacles in the path of establishing gender equality in our nation. Women are ruthlessly suppressed and oppresses within the four walls of the patriarchal family set up and even the possibilities relates to the educational and employment opportunities are being approached from the regressive gender ideology which always privileges the masculine. The reactionary cultural backlash taking place in our country due to the strengthening of conservative communal forces and the patriarchal values go in hand in hand and only in an atmosphere which caters to progressive and scientific ideas can uphold the issues concerned with gender justice and equality in our nation. In a terrific situation involving physical violence including brutal rapes, mental suppression and abuse, Indian women struggle hard to establish their space in society. In the globalized situation, under the vicious workings of market-oriented ideology, women have become miserable victims of commoditization and they are often treated as mere objects to be consumed. Recent hike in phenomena like human trafficking and gang rapes has become impediments in the expansion of confidence among women. It is high time that we start to seriously address the issues related to gender justice and equality in our society along with other axes of inequality. The efforts of constructing a more egalitarian society should essentially take into consideration the vital issues faced by women and transgender people in India.