New Delhi, Oct. 2 -- Whenever a crime against a woman happens, they are told to stay indoors for safety, but what happens when violence reaches their homes too?

Nearly 14 years after the Nirbhaya case forced India to confront sexual violence against women, the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old girl at Delhi's Aastha Kunj Park has reopened an old question: is women's safety being addressed by making spaces safer, or by asking women to avoid them?

The latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data suggests the problem is not just public spaces but is far wider. From homes and familiar surroundings to buses, campuses and public parks, the challenge of keeping women safe continues to span the spaces they inhabit every day.

According to ...