Praying for safety
, December 31, 2012
A student prays during a vigil for a gang rape victim, who was assaulted in New Delhi, in Ahmedabad on December 31. One of hundreds of attacks reported in New Delhi each year, the gang rape and death of a medical student caught Indian authorities and political parties flat-footed, slow to see that the assault on a private bus had come to symbolise an epidemic of crime against women. Reuters/Amit Dave