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Back in the early 2000s I worked with a group of expatriates who set up shared service centres in China, Philippines and India. In Bangalore and Chennai, the issues I heard coming back made it difficult to continue sending expatriate women there. Walking from their hotel compound they would be leared at, groped in markets - and in the end they wouldn't go outside with a chaperone. It was really odd as it didn't happen in other Asian countries to them. I spent a lot of time in India over the years, mainly Mumbai and Delhi. The stories of the countryside rarely get told to international press, and in a country so vast and populated one can only imagine the stories under the radar. What surprised me was the student attack being in New Delhi. The kimono is now open, and no doubt there will be a lot more press focus on it for the time being, but I doubt the attitude of government and police - and therefore male behaviour - will change.
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