I only hope that some good comes from this tragedy - often a forlorn hope.

The whole area of Asia and the Indian sub-continent display an overt negative attitude towards females. The extreme being the Taliban who openly are draconian with women they view to have 'erred'.

The police have come out of this in not too good a light too - my year in Bangladesh showed me that the impression that men can do what they like with women is pretty much the case, and is hugely disappointing. So often, it seems that the Indians are a gentle people, this shows the error of that perception.

If this makes women in India safer in the long-term, then her tragic death may have some meaning. We can only hope.