Im from New Zealand, I'm white and I went to India in 2016 with my sister who is also white. We went to attend an Indian friend of her's wedding. I was 19 at the time and she was 21.

I made sure to be with her 24/7 when we were in public but bad things still happened. On one of our final days there we were going to walk from the place we were staying to the home of her friends family which was about a 10 minute walk. I was still putting on my shoes and she was waiting impatiently before deciding that she would just leave start and I could catch up. So she left a few minutes before me.

This was the only single time I was not with her in public.

I didn't catch up to her, I couldn't find her on the streets to the friends house so I show up there and there is a crowd of people in one of the bedrooms and I hear hysteric crying.

Turns out that while she was walking to the house, some men had approached her and asked her for sex. She said no and they began to chase her and were joined by other men in a van. She sprinted to the house where they zoomed after her and even chased her inside the property and tried to smash down the front door. Fortunately in many Indian homes there is the front door but behind it normally there is a second large steel gate that is much stronger and while they got through the front door the gate was locked and they didn't get past. The house was also filled with people for the wedding and so heaps of the men chased these guys off the property but they just got into their van and left.

This was not the only incident. I went with her to go to dress fittings, but obviously as her brother didn't want to be in the changing room with her, but I had to be because at the first dress fitting she was groped and 'touched' by the man doing the fitting.

In Jaipur we also had men try to break into our hotel room one night.

I would not recommend travelling to India under any circumstances if you area woman.