Hindustan Times: Safe in the city
Our experts tell you how to secure children from sexual harassment and show how basic accessories can help you escape dangerous situations. Also, for female drivers, there are tips on commuting safely. Safety tip If the attacker catches you from behind then you can use your leather belt like a whip, in case the assailant doesn’t [...]
Wall Street Journal’s India Journal: Rethinking Safety in Delhi
By Veronica Weis Something has gone fundamentally awry in the fabric of a city when reoccurring headlines of “rape,” “dowry killing” and other gender-based violence are treated as banalities, acknowledged with cursory glances. It’s no surprise, then, that when you broach the topic of public safety with a woman in Delhi, she will likely launch [...]
Freedom lost at the hand of sexual harassment
Freedom: The dictionary defines it as ‘the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint; exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc.; the power to determine action without restraint; political or national independence; personal liberty, as opposed to bondage or slavery’. My first memory of being harassed on [...]
Making Delhi Sweet Again
I’ve lived in Delhi my whole life. And it’s here that I have always heard myself say, “home sweet home.” Now, 24 years later, I only say “home.” So the word sweet is gone. Why? What has changed? It’s not that I don’t want to call my home sweet anymore but the scars and unpleasant [...]
Sexual harassment at a cafe
A few days ago I was sitting in a cafe that I frequently go to in Delhi doing some research for a paper I was working on. I had been sitting there for about two hours already (which would eventually lead to five hours), and had been there the week before too, so the waiters [...]
Flashing Yellow @ Flash Mob #2
100 rupees for the t-shirt that you have to wear to be a part of it? Hmmm….okay. Please Mend the Gap came about as a result of anger from a fateful incident in the Delhi Metro and frustration in general with the problem of safety, discrimination and inequality that women in Delhi have to live [...]
