Eve Teasing: A Nightmare

The horror of eve-teasing first hit me at the age of thirteen. I was in the middle of a crowded market, when a man walking towards me tried to squeeze my thigh. I elbowed him in the stomach with all the strength I could muster, and he walked…

Am I Just An Object?

Ogling at you, leching at you, even trying to feel you up and grope you, they will make you question your very own existence in this world and make your life miserable. Sometimes, you end up crying, or weeping, or plain thinking, “How I wish I had been born a boy!” …

Stigma

Recently, there has been an innovative project put together by a popular organization fighting against street sexual harassment of women. This organization had the brilliant idea of putting together a wardrobe of thousands of dresses worn by women when they were eve-teased on the streets. The basic purpose of this project was to bust the popular myth that only women who wear ‘provocative’ dresses are eve-teased…

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