"But the attack on Dec. 16 — when a young woman boarded a bus with a male friend in the early evening, and was brutally raped and beaten by five men and a teenager — has shaken many women and their families, in part because what she was doing didn’t seem to many of us to be that unsafe. Wasn’t she following the rules? She wasn’t alone. It was only 8 p.m. The attack happened in a 'civilized' part of Delhi where many young women live."

Read more: Tripti Lahiri, IndiaRealTime, Wall Street Journal