Even as the Uber taxi rape case, continues to grab headlines, a slew of molestation and rape cases continue to be reported. In one of the latest instances, there has been a molestation in a Mumbai residential building lift, where a security guard molested and tried to rape a postwoman. This, in a posh Western suburb in daylight.

There have also been a number of reports about women facing sexual violence in perhaps the last bastion of safety and security. Hospitals and doctors’ clinics are also not safe. Ward boys have been accused of molesting nurses and patients. In certain cases, doctors have been accused of rape. It is shocking that a place, where one goes to heal actually becomes a place to fear. If women face some trepidation in visiting a doctor, it shows how badly we have fallen as a society.