Women Problem: What Does It Take to Make a City, and Society, Safe?
New Delhi’s Women Problem: What Does It Take to Make a City, and Society, Safe? By Krista Mahr | May 2, 2012 Source : TIME ( Kaushik Roy / India Today Group / Getty Images Women attend the 'Besharmi Morcha' march or 'Slutwalk' in New Delhi on July 31,2011.) One of the first things I heard when I moved to New Delhi was to be careful at night. I heard it from my real estate agent, my colleagues, from people I met at coffee shops and bars. I knew the incidence of rape in the Indian capital was high, but I largely interpreted the warnings as other people underestimating my ability to take care of myself. Let’s not linger too long on that weird reaction, but I will add that I’ve been living in relatively safe places for the past few years, and I had forgotten what it felt like to live in a place where, as a woman in public, you’re usually pretty aware that you are that: a woman in public. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Here, it can be. In a...