Tanushree Dutta speaks up against Nana Patekar, only to be greeted by silence from Bollywood — unsurprisingly On September 25, model and TV show host Padma Lakshmi wrote an article in The New York Times about her sexual assault as a child and as a teenager, and why she’d kept quiet about both incidents for […]

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The assumption that all children and adolescents experience guilt, shame, and fear, when abused, is not true Educating children to help them protect themselves from sexual abuse uses the ‘good touch bad touch’ paradigm. The basic assumption of such nomenclature is that children feel scared, ashamed, and even guilty when they are touched in their […]

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Sexual harassment of female sportspersons is an issue that has plagued sport for quite some time. Indian Players share their horrific experiences with Patriot Former South Korean tennis player Kim Eun-Hee recently held a press conference that took the world of sports by storm. During the meet, she claimed that she was sexually harassed by […]

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How popular songs in Bhojpuri legitimise sexual harassment. Earlier this month another case of a viral video of a girl being molested in Nalanda district of Bihar was reported. Within a span of three months, it’s the third such case. Earlier videos of girls being molested in Jehanabad and Gaya went viral in April and […]

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‘Radio In A Purse’ is a project which — by fitting purses with audio equipment — is encouraging students to come forward and share their experience of harassment on campus Radio In A Purse project, a Bangalore-based initiative, is capturing students’ stories of being sexually harassed on university campuses across the city. Set up in […]

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