A belated advisory.

The US State Department has issued a sudden level-2 travel warning to India which says, "Rape is one of the fastest growing crimes in India. Violent crimes including sexual assault, happen at tourist sites and other locations." "Do not travel alone, especially if you are a woman." It says that the US has little ability to assist in rural areas that "stretch from eastern Maharashtra and northern Telangana through western West Bengal. TOI. Not just in rural West Bengal. On 9 August 2024, a female doctor was horrifically raped and tortured to death at RG Kar Medical College right in the heart of Kolkata. wikipedia. Within a month the rape scene was renovated thus wiping out all incriminatory evidence. India Today. Only one man, "Sanjay Roy, a hospital volunteer worker, was found guilty over the attack, which happened in August last year in Kolkata." "Roy has maintained his innocence and said previously that he was being framed." BBC. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has found no evidence of police cover up, deliberate destruction of evidence and has not analysed the CCTV footage till 10 June 2025, when it submitted its fourth report. The Hindu. In May 2024, BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh was charged with sexual harassment of a number of female wrestlers. TOI. "Seven female wrestlers, including the minor, registered complaints with the police accusing Singh of molesting and groping them at training camps and tournaments." "Weeks later, the minor retracted her earlier statements and withdrew her allegations, reports said." As expected, in May 2025, "A court in the capital, Delhi, accepted a Delhi police report, recommending the cancellation of the case against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh." BBC. On 14 September 2020, four men gang-raped a lower caste woman at Hathras District in Uttar Pradesh, The woman died two weeks later. On 29 September, the police cremated her body at 2.30 AM without consent of her family. wikipedia. In March 2023, "An Indian court has acquitted three of the four men accused of the rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in 2020." The fourth man was convicted of a reduced offence. BBC. "Over 30% of girls and 13% of boys in India experienced sexual violence before turning 18 years old in 2023, according to an analysis published in The Lancet journal. Estimating the prevalence of sexual violence against children in over 200 countries between 1990 and 2023, the study found that the highest rates were recorded in South Asia for girls -- ranging from 9.3% in Bangladesh to 30.8% in India." ET. Perhaps, it is best that the female to male ratio is lower than normal. "Surveys have identified 481 villages across the state (Haryana) - which is 7% of its 6,842 villages (2011 census) - that have over the past five years consistently had a severely skewed sex ratio at birth - below 700 girls per 1,000 boys." TOI. Obviously, they are being aborted. The good thing is that girls can't be raped if they are not born. But, even this figure is a deliberate fudge because only India counts the number of girls against 1,000 boys. The rest of the whole world counts the number of boys per 100 girls and this varies from 103 to 105 boys to 100 girls at birth. wikipedia. The incidence of rape is so high because perpetrators routinely escape punishment. It's a surprise that only the US has cautioned its women and not the whole world. It may yet happen. The shame.