The south and it is like 100 times different from the north. 90% of the cases you see on the news are from the northern states. In the south women, for the most part, do not fear to go into public but at the same time, the streets of the entire country are not safe for women travelling alone after 9 pm.
Not the same, but…
American woman, in the military. During a deployment a few years ago in the Philippines we were at the same hotel as some of the Indian army. There was an Indian man staying in the room across from mine. He was coming up to his room as I was leaving mine one day, we made eye contact and I said hello. He said hello back, and I walked down the hallway.
As I neared the end of the hall where I had to turn, I realized I never heard his door close, so as I turned I glanced down the hall. He was standing at his door, holding the doorknob, just… staring down the hallway at me. Super creepy.
I chalked it up to just “maybe he’s never seen a white person with blonde hair and blue eyes” or something.
It really depends where you are. But places like New Delhi are out of control.
While I was travelling I met two American girls and within 20 minutes of us being in New Dehli both of them got groped as we were walking in the street.
But in places like Kashmir and Leh I never saw anything like that.
In a documentary I saw about prostitution a guy in India says that if they didn’t have whore house then they’d be raping women all the time. They women were also having sex with 10 or 15 guys a day and only make a couple dollars each.
India is country of 1.3 billion people, with so many cultures so different than each other, people coming from different different upbringing ans social background, it would be unfair to have any judgment about whole country based on act of some individual