As a crime reporter from Mumbai, I have reported on a number of crimes, including rape, molestation, murder and physical abuse. Over the years, beat reporting has hardened me as individual. But as more details emerge from the horrific rape in Delhi, a few kilometres from where I now live, I was stunned. I had never worried about issues like women’s safety. “I am from Mumbai and if someone tries to misbehave with me I will thrash him!” I would often tell my friends.