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Can we take a step ahead to protect women ?
Didn't know where it could be appropriate to post this. Yesterday while riding to office on JVLR, at one of those long ass signals near Powai I was waiting in traffic. Just 3 4 feet ahead of me was a middle aged man, easily of an age to be a father of teen,/young girl. He was constantly and blatantly staring inside a rickshaw. Baffled at what could it be, I just saw around a girl was sitting inside in western clothings, and this man was constantly staring at her legs. To my presence of my mind I did what i felt is best thing. I got my bike in a position, between him and rickshaw. He still was trying to bend a little and hang a little to take a sneak peek at her staring downwards. Frustrated by this i decided to just keep staring at his face. I wear black screen helmet so my face isn't visible, but I think still he could sense me staring at him directly. I just kept staring at his face whole time. Just as signal was about to go green, he said "kya be l##*de, kya ghur raha hain, sala mood kharab Kiya" and i equally politely said, " aap jaise ghur rahe ho rickshaw ke andar, apni beti ki umar ki hain wo, main bhi ghur raha hu apko vaisehi". He visibly got ashamed of that comment. Anger frustration spread on his face. He gave some gaali and left. Moral of the story: Idk how much impact I may have made, but we can always take a step ahead to stop this. May be at some point the shame will be greater than the audacity of penetrating someone's comfort space.4
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