Bodyguards? so how can you trust anyone? well! go on C'da, I can hear you right now - I told you so! and I agree with you, the sense of feeling safe will not be there in a place like that. But that pretty much is all over India nowadays, all over, I mean, except for most of the southern part of India.
What about the airports? Are they safe? Can a woman spend the night (or day, looks like even broad daylight with people walking around also don't matter) in the airport or even go to a hotel and sleep peacefully? I won't think so. That becomes so difficult for some of us that don't have many friends/relatives in Delhi or who do not want to disturb them by going to their homes. BTW, just wanted to share this funny story from years back: once, while going back from Kolkata to Guwahati, our plane couldn't land at Borjhar and had to come back to Kolkata, and we, the passengers were placed at the Park at Kolkata (or was it Hotel Hindusthan, I forget now, but Nitin was very impressed with it, I remember). In the evening, one of the passengers, an Assamese from Nowgong, I think, knocked at our door (only Nitin and I) for dinner. But we wouldn't open the door for him and told him that we would meet him at the lounge downstairs, I think he was so offended that he turned his head to the other side everytime he saw us after that. But we couldn't help, we didn't know him. Even though this has been happening all over for ages, it is hard to understand how things could even happen when there is no love involved, well! that is one way for the sickos to show their wish to dominate women, i guess. Hope they spend the rest of their lives in jail. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saurav Pathak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chan Mahanta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [Assam] Swiss national in Delhi > > > > Chan Mahanta said on AssamNet: > > + *** I have known for some years now, and from people who live in Delhi, > + including half a dozen of my close friends, that Delhi IS a dangerous place. > > > there are probably more dangerous places, but delhi seems to be > specially dangerous for women. a couple of weeks ago four members > of the president's body guards raped a college student in one of the > parks. women of station are frequent victims. maybe there is a > sociological explanation. > > -- > saurav > _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam To unsubscribe or change options: http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/options/assam
