India's wealthy women are increasingly buying guns to protect themselves, as reports of rapes and other violent attacks on women grow more common in the local media, reports the Guardian's Jason Burke (aka "the other Jason").
Burke's article provides an interesting update to my GlobalPost series on India's gun culture, India: Armed and Dangerous. As I suggested, people are increasingly turning to guns to cope with the breakdown of law and order and rapid economic changes that are putting more pressure on social ties. Look for an uptick in fatal accidents to go with the new "protection."