An ignominious truth

Women's safety in India is a grave concern

What does India have in common with Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia and Saudi Arabia? After all, India prides itself as the fastest-growing major economy in the world, a rising superpower, the leader of the so-called “Asian” century, while the rest are countries ravaged by the worst form of civil and military war or, as in Saudi Arabia’s case, a hyper-conservative and toxic mixture of the most tyrannical elements of religion and politics. Earlier in the week, the Thomson Reuters Foundation — the philanthropic arm of Reuters media company — created a furore when it clubbed India with the other four as