Quite, Eliza. And that may well be what Don had in mind ~~ he will doubtless confirm if this the case. BUT India is not supposed to be an 'unstable regime', comparable to the troubled parts of sub-Saharan Africa which cause so much concern; but an ancient and revered civilisation; and these present activities are, I am sure, not indicative of the way its government and people would wish to be viewed by the world at large.

Re your second point ~~ indeed so; but it is not many years, talking of the African trouble-spots [though this would claim not to be one such] since a young woman was publicly punished with 100 strokes of the cane on her bare buttocks in Northern Nigeria, for the heinous offence of having given birth outside wedlock ~ as the acknowledged result of rape!

~M~