Before you down-vote or say anything negative in the comments. It just needs to be said that there are some historical factors that also contributed to the situation in Delhi and other places in India where rapes have occurred. No doubt that rape is very disgusting, unfair and sickening but we can't forget that India is still trying to recover from post-colonial invasions by Muslims and England that have lasted for over centuries with some lingering damage to its inherent reasoning, culture and physical landscape.

The Muslims were especially terrible on the North side of India (where the brutal rape occured) and they had a habit of enslaving and treating people with general disrespect so we took on a more defensive tone against our own women to protect them, thus bringing forth the oppressive instinct that has lingered ever since. Women have recently become more liberal (More power to them!) however and the brutal rape was a terrible reaction by the four idiots in Delhi to the new found displays of freedom which was considered taboo or insulting in the north side. I'm truly happy that two of rapists have been put to death and the last two will be soon however women have been known to enjoy more openness in society towards the South side of India because the Muslims simply did not get that far.

India was also made extremely poor by the British and they wreaked havoc on the social fabric of the entire society by creating motivations for the caste system and turning the different clans against one another while justifying it as a rigid vertical hierarchy (which it was originally not) with the promise of bigger rewards for those at the top. Plus England was responsible for the British East India Tea company and as a whole, they looted the entire continent and used that money to further colonize the rest of the world to our chagrin today... India was not called the crown jewel for no reason!

My final point is that India is still trying to recover (as it has many times before) from the negative aspects of its colonial history and its lingering side effects but Indians are still making progress in their own right. If Indians and everyone else would actually look further back throughout its history; then they would see India's amazing proto-cultural, intellectual or proto-spiritual developments that have existed even before the first monotheistic faith (Zoroastianism) stepped forth upon the Earth. In other words, India is still a continuing legacy of an ancient civilization crucial to world development; and no, it does not get there by condoning rape- it instead was an arbiter in the silk trade, invented the number 0 in mathematics and calculated the age of the planet as billions of years old (similar to modern scientific thought) when no one else even considered such things. It is also the culture where yoga and meditation came into existence that we enjoy today so please don't judge India or Indians based on any British perspective about rape because England has already enslaved and pillaged the majority of the world's cultural identity and resources (which is also a form of rape if you truly think about it...)

Please don't misunderstand me though, rape is not OK and there is a need for a continuing Indian progress/recovery within its country but Britain does not deserve the right to evoke an isolated emotional reaction in absence of the objective world history that it has negatively contributed to in terms of culture along with others so please thoroughly research everything, don't fall for emotional propaganda and always keep questioning!