If you live in India and if you are a woman or related to a woman, then you are condemned to live in fear for your entire life. Directly or indirectly, you will face some form of sexual assault in your life either because your daughter, sister, wife or mother faced it or if you are a woman, you would have been sexually harassed, ranging from groping to rape. The past week has seen a ritual catharsis in India that began last December in Delhi after the brutal gang rape of a para-medical student.