Horrendous is the only word that comes to mind when reading about the para-medical student, a girl who is battling for her life after being assaulted and gang-raped by four men in a bus in New Delhi.

For too many years now, Delhi has carried the unfortunate label of being a city unsafe for women, and is actually used as a shameful yardstick when comparisons are made between Indian cities on how they rank on the safety for women scale. Off late, there have been plenty of reports speculating about whether Mumbai is going the Delhi way, given the spike in cases of sexual violence against women here, assaults, robberies and murders.