Originally Posted by
GUWonder
A few decades ago, young adult, foreign female tourists to India would almost never have been subjected to lewd comments by people at the airports or on the street in India even when alone; now, it's almost certain to happen when paying attention and understanding the local language(s)/vernacular/slang if you stay around for long enough; often this happens even when in the company of a male travel companion. It's really gotten shamefully bad, and it's not just due to demographic shifts.
Sorry my friend, but this is selective memory. Since I can remember (recollection starts about 1980) men in India didn't hide their randy thoughts about my mother and expressed them in various obvious ways. I remember one of her students being super annoyed being grabbed in the bus back in 1992. In 1995 I recall being in Andaman of all places where a crowd of young men gathered to watch us at the beach, just because two of us were 45+yr old white women in one piece bathing suits. �� Goa in 2002 was the worst as a crowd of young drunk men gathered to watch a friend of mine as we were at the beach.