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India Safety: Female travellers - India Travel Guide - iGuide
India is a conservative country and some Western habits are perceived as dishonorable for a woman.
Outside of the larger cities, it is unusual for people of the opposite sex to touch each other in public. Even couples (married or otherwise) refrain from public displays of affection. Therefore, it is advised that you do not shake hands with a person of the opposite sex unless the other person extends his/her hand first. The greeting among Hindus is to bring your palms together in front of your chest, or simply saying 'Namaste', or 'Namaskar'. Both forms are equally polite and correct, if a little formal. Almost all the people (even if they don't know English) do understand a "Hi" or a "Hello".
Except in major cities (and only in trendy places or in high society) women do not smoke. A woman who smokes/drinks is associated with loose moral character in much of the rest of the country's growing middle class.
Rape of foreign tourists shames the nation!
Not only women tourists from abroad, our own women are not safe in our country. As a Lucknow girl rightly puts it, �Women are not safe anywhere-in the womb, in their homes, with family, with in-laws, in prison, on the streets or public places�.
Rape Cases in India : Are white female tourists targeted in India? UK
JOURNALIST raped by a guesthouse owner; US tourist molested at Pushkar, Rajasthan; Japanese student molested; Swiss tourist raped, scream out the headlines in the national and local press. What is happening to India after all? The scriptures declare Atithi Devo Bhava or the guest is God. The foreign tourists are our guests. But the ground reality tells a different story.
Foreigners are no longer treated as guests. They are an easy prey to human predators. What puzzles me is the scant concern shown to these shameful almost-daily occurrences by those whose duty is to guard the tourists against such things: the government, tourism department, hoteliers, guest-house owners, taxi drivers, parking lot attendants, the moralists, temple priests, the socialites - in short, everybody is indifferent to this important issue. Recently a British tourist was raped in Goa. But the government explained that it was just an isolated incident. Well, it could be so, but how many such incidents would awaken us to the gravity of this serious issue? Molesting, ill-treating, harassing, humiliating, insulting, violating the modesty, stealing the purse and documents, cheating, deceiving and fooling tourists, exploiting their trust and vulnerability, murdering them, etc, constitute a dangerous trend that sends negative signals to the outside world.
Rape of foreign tourists shames the nation!
The purpose of this thread is for discussion whether India is a safe
place female tourists , please no flame, no troll. Thanks in advance.
India is a conservative country and some Western habits are perceived as dishonorable for a woman.
Outside of the larger cities, it is unusual for people of the opposite sex to touch each other in public. Even couples (married or otherwise) refrain from public displays of affection. Therefore, it is advised that you do not shake hands with a person of the opposite sex unless the other person extends his/her hand first. The greeting among Hindus is to bring your palms together in front of your chest, or simply saying 'Namaste', or 'Namaskar'. Both forms are equally polite and correct, if a little formal. Almost all the people (even if they don't know English) do understand a "Hi" or a "Hello".
Except in major cities (and only in trendy places or in high society) women do not smoke. A woman who smokes/drinks is associated with loose moral character in much of the rest of the country's growing middle class.
Rape of foreign tourists shames the nation!
Not only women tourists from abroad, our own women are not safe in our country. As a Lucknow girl rightly puts it, �Women are not safe anywhere-in the womb, in their homes, with family, with in-laws, in prison, on the streets or public places�.
Rape Cases in India : Are white female tourists targeted in India? UK
JOURNALIST raped by a guesthouse owner; US tourist molested at Pushkar, Rajasthan; Japanese student molested; Swiss tourist raped, scream out the headlines in the national and local press. What is happening to India after all? The scriptures declare Atithi Devo Bhava or the guest is God. The foreign tourists are our guests. But the ground reality tells a different story.
Foreigners are no longer treated as guests. They are an easy prey to human predators. What puzzles me is the scant concern shown to these shameful almost-daily occurrences by those whose duty is to guard the tourists against such things: the government, tourism department, hoteliers, guest-house owners, taxi drivers, parking lot attendants, the moralists, temple priests, the socialites - in short, everybody is indifferent to this important issue. Recently a British tourist was raped in Goa. But the government explained that it was just an isolated incident. Well, it could be so, but how many such incidents would awaken us to the gravity of this serious issue? Molesting, ill-treating, harassing, humiliating, insulting, violating the modesty, stealing the purse and documents, cheating, deceiving and fooling tourists, exploiting their trust and vulnerability, murdering them, etc, constitute a dangerous trend that sends negative signals to the outside world.
Rape of foreign tourists shames the nation!
The purpose of this thread is for discussion whether India is a safe
place female tourists , please no flame, no troll. Thanks in advance.
......And bcoz of bussiness things I go to india 3 time per year........ I think it is time for me to collect this kind of news to show my boss, let him change others to go to india, for me my life is more important than anything...
so what ? But steps are being taken To bring the perpetrators to books.
