The week after Mumbai has been stunned by the gangrape of a young woman media professional out on a work assignment in the heart of the city, one asks oneself, how do we move on? Not that rape is unknown in this city, neither is verbal and physical harassment or sexual molestation.

Women in this city -- working full-time or not; in white collar, blue collar and increasingly informal jobs; educated or unschooled; young (including babies and toddlers) or older; lower caste or not; migrant or not; foreign or not; heterosexual or not; minority or not; differently-abled or not -- all contend with violence every day. Yes violence, in this the most ‘women friendly’ of all Indian cities. We negotiate, we strategize, we keep our cell phones pressed, we simply get going.