What is the need for the ingratiating encomiums paid in the first paragraph? Dutt and defensive? She is the best when she is in the offensive, as she is in this write up. What has a medical journal to do with the percentage of crime reported in India? Don't lap up anything published abroad. After giving a few statistics, we are told they can be deceptive! "How is this anything other than a fact of deceptive symbolism?" Can you make anything out of this sentence? Just empty drum sounding louder. When you compare the percentage of cases of women's victimization in India with its population with those of western countries, many of which are smaller than our States, you will find we are not doing so bad after all. Please also mention that in other countries if you want to accuse someone of rape, be prepared to prove it; otherwise you will be sued for a sum which will make you pauper. Besides their moral values are so lax, most of the incidents are simply ignored as nothing to bother unless a VIP is involved. Here in the bazaar any woman can shout at a male for accidentally touching her and he is likely to be beaten up soundly by everyone around! When I was travelling in a bus in Tamil Nadu and my wife occupied an empty seat, the guy sitting next to her got up and moved away and in Calcutta I had seen women standing in a crowded suburban train totally untouched by surrounding male members. Of course, it was years back when I was living in India. I do not know the present condition. Don't tell me about infanticide in India. Use of contraceptives are prohibitively costly for the poor and even now monthly tablets are used sparsely by working women. Instead of abusing infanticide the author should spend her energy in popularizing birth control measures. Instead of appreciating the various difficulties in facing any problems and their solution, it has become a fashion to list out what is wrong, as though one has done enough to right the wrong. Self flagellation does not absolve one of having done nothing else to solve the problem.

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