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Making India Safe for Women

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http://www.indusladies.com/forums/blogs/induslady/indusladies-4th-annual-international-women-8412/ I can never forget the day I had to visit a police station to report the loss of my driving licence. I went in with my heart hammering, scared to death, and all ready to run out if they tried anything funny. All the gory stories of the protectors of the public raping and abusing women were running in my head. The shocking and heinous incident of gang rape and now murder in Delhi has the whole of India in frenzy.  While I and women and at least some men all over the country are super glad that people have at last woken up to the fact that something is very drastically wrong, will it change things as they stand? Even at the cost of sounding very cynical, I must admit that I have serious doubts that men (and disgustingly many women) are going to evolve into more civilised individuals just   because there is so much hue and cry over the issue.  What really is the issue here?