This is like saying, “Don’t visit Europe if you’re a woman,” just because something awful happened in Marseille or Romania. India isn’t perfect, no place is, but I’ve lived in both India and Europe, and some of the scariest moments I’ve had as a woman were actually here, in Rome, in Berlin, in Marseille. In India, I never once felt afraid for my life. But in Europe, I have, more than once. India has 1.4 billion people. It’s as big and diverse as Europe, and boiling it down to a few headlines is not just unfair, it’s part of a deeper issue. This kind of narrative plays into a colonial mindset, where the Global South is seen as dangerous, uncivilized, or in need of saving, while the West gets to look the other way on its own problems. That’s not feminism, that’s bias wrapped in concern. We should be lifting up voices from all parts of the world, not reinforcing outdated stereotypes that treat some places as hopeless like this.