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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]You’re very welcome, and I thank you as well for sharing a bit of your story here! I had a look at your blog and really appreciated your own post about Michaela’s account. It is indeed hard to believe she didn’t get in touch with her university sooner as each negative experience took place. But I couldn’t agree more with you on praying for change and respect in India – here’s hoping that takes place soon![/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Beautiful photos and a wonderful message! I spent a month and a half in india and Nepal this past winter and I loved it and I could have smiled more, yes! Next time I go, I will definitely be sure to know more Hindi and smile more and create more relationships. I experienced a couple of strange incidents but was never groped or anything worse than being stared at intensely for a couple of hours on a bus. I freaked out after that incident and was quite rude to the man as he was trying to help us but now I think I could have been friendlier-after all, many of them have never seen a white blonde woman in their lives! Thanks for this wonderful post. There is no point in creating more fear in our lives- only awareness, empathy and compassion matter and usually the fear goes away.[/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Jenna, as I mentioned on Facebook earlier tonight, I so loved what you wrote here about fear and compassion – thank you for sharing that! I absolutely understand and have so been there on those uncomfortable bus rides and even more uncomfortable encounters – they really are quite impossible to avoid in India, but I found that you just can’t let them define your entire experience in the country. I’m glad to hear you still loved your time there, though, and I hope you’ll have the chance to return again one day![/size][/font][/color]

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Thank you for this post. Every time I hear one of the horror stories coming out of India from solo female travellers recently it makes me quite upset, because I’m a huge advocate for travel in India. I’ve spent a fair amount of time in India as a solo female traveller, and my experiences, while often frustrating and occasionally confronting (and that’s India!), have largely mirrored your own.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
I find the vast majority of people – men and women – in India are simply curious, and most look out for a woman on her own. It’s so important to keep smiling – I got pulled up on it by a tour guide in Cochin when I found myself putting up a scowling barrier between myself and people because I was so scared of getting approached inappropriately, although I’d had no bad experiences – becoming more open (while still being sensible and cautious about it) really turned my experience around.[/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Thanks so much for your fantastic comment, Megan! It’s so great to hear from a fellow Indophile, and I really appreciate you sharing some of your experiences here – hopefully they’ll prove helpful to other female travelers thinking of heading to India! I especially love what you said about curiosity, for that was exactly what I found there as well. And what I loved most was that that curiosity is incredibly mutual, isn’t it? We’re both so unknown to each other, so it’s really a chance for people from two vastly different cultures to chat and learn about the other. Thanks again for your insightful comment![/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]I’m thrilled to hear that, Apol! India is a fascinating country to explore, and I’d hate for bad press to discourage anyone from traveling there. Please let me know if there’s anything I can help with when you do decide to visit it [/size][/font][/color][img]http://www.candaceroserardon.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif[/img]

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Hi Candace, thank you so much for writing such a beautiful piece about my country. As you mentioned, it pains to see the entire country being stereotyped. The crimes committed by a few insane people is ending up generalising an entire population as rapists, molesters and just criminals. It was such a reassuring feeling to read your account early this morning. You truly made my day. I am sure there’ll be an entire population that would be thankful to you for sharing this piece on India. Goodness prevails and finds itself.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Hello, Rekha! It’s wonderful to hear from you here, thanks so much for taking the time to say hello. I’m thrilled that I might have, in some small way, reassured you that there are people who love India and try to see beyond the crazy headlines. Goodness does indeed prevail and I’m endlessly grateful for all of the kind-hearted people I encountered during my time in your beautiful country.[/size][/font][/color]

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Beautiful post Candace, thank you.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
I met so many wonderful men travelling around India, and on a sleeper train overnight with, at one point, about 15 men playing cards next to me, it would have been weird not to smile.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
Although I wouldn’t usually compare India and the UK when talking about this, it was interesting Mariellen mentioned having her breast grabbed, as some guy grabbed one of mine last week here in Bristol.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
That said, it is important the men and women of India continue to fight against the bad things that happen there, and people from other countries saying, ‘it happens here too’ is sometimes a lazy response, and one that should not suggest ‘it’ is exactly the same or as prolific everywhere.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
I’m also of the opinion that there is no country where women enjoy exactly the same freedom as men. Yet. But there will be.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
It is important to fight good fights against bad things, yet focusing for the most part on the positives helps us fight those good fights better. So, I like your style.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
And I like to think women can travel wherever they like, armed with common sense.[/size][/font][/color]

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Sophie, my love, I can’t thank you enough for your beautiful comment – thanks so much for taking the time to share some of your thoughts and experiences from traveling through India last year. I especially appreciated what you said about fighting the good fight – I definitely do not feel that only sharing our negative experiences in a place is the best approach. Every discussion needs to include the good and the bad, doesn’t it?[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
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Thank you for sharing this story. It is nice to read something that refreshes my memory of the good times in India.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
In my experience of living in Delhi for three months, I never actually came into harms way. Although I spent an awful lot of time feeling that I was. When I reflect on how many times I was actually grabbed, or actually faced danger particularly of a sexual nature, the answer is NONE![/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
Sometimes when I would walk to work I felt intimidated, I felt like I was being followed (I probably was), but like any situation back home in Australia, I just crossed the road and made a phone call as to feel safe. I felt stared at, like I was vulnerable. And I probably was.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
India is an intimidating place, it is a challenge for a solo female. And while change does need to happen, I don’t think we should let this stop us from embracing everything wonderful about the people and culture. Indeed, why do women still travel solo to Melbourne when women are raped and murdered here….but it stops them travelling to India. It is no different.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
I write this in hindsight, and having had many months now to reflect on my time there. I remember returning home angry, and upset, I had had enough. But I left about ten days after the infamous Delhi gang rape, and I lived in Saket, so it was a bit close to home for me. It was very raw. Had that incident not happened when it did, I perhaps would have been less anxious and negative at the time.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
Regardless, my reflection on my WHOLE time in India has resulted in me booking another ticket back for February next year. And I can’t wait to share my experience with the small group of women I am travelling with.[/size][/font][/color]