Unlike the US, who take pride in their rights and freedoms (including the right to own guns at whatever cost) and who don't give a rats ass about whether the rest of the world approves of how they conduct themselves either at home or abroad, the recent international spotlight on the gang rape problem in India, is deeply humiliating for the government of a nation desiring to shed it's old 'third world' image and be seen as a modern developing nation. I genuinely hope that women activists in India will be able to use the publicity surrounding this case to shame the powers that be, into genuine action to tackle the kinds of routine abuses, both physical and sexual, that huge amounts of Indian women experience everyday in silence.