Harassment is not confined
Harassment is a blow any girl can suffer anywhere. Harassment is not necessarily an attack by just strangers, it can be an intense assault within the confinements of your house you considered your home. Here I am typing my own story of an account which shook my life and left it [...]Read more
Trigger the talk………….break the silence!
With all the discussions and debates around the Tehelka episode, I am compelled to reflect and remember my own personal experiences on sexual harassment both in public and at the work place. I was 12 years old, travelling by train with my mum and sister from Parel to Andheri. One [...]Read more
“Free-Fair-Fearless”?!?!?!?!
An age old question is raised again- what drives a man to commit sexual abuse and harassment of women? What kind of pleasure do men derive from the fear, hatred, dislike, contempt, anger, loathing a woman feels when she is subject to harassment? Some excuses have been that the [...]Read more
Brothel No. 64
I once visited GB road area which is near the New Delhi Railway station. Lot of my pervert friends suggested me to pay a visit. Roaming there casually, I initially saw 2-3 Police check posts and a primary school which puzzled me if it was really the Biggest Red Light Area of [...]Read more
An experience with Rodinhoods
The Safecity team participated in “The Rodinhoods Open House” hosted by IIT Delhi on 9th November, 2013. The event was aimed at encouraging businesses, NGO’s and social causes and providing them with necessary guidance. Mr Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal led the event and shared his [...]Read more
An Autowala, An Entrepreneur
Hey! I am Divya Pant one of the volunteer of Safecity for mapping #100 unsafe places in Delhi. I would like to draw your kind attention toward “An Autowala, An Entrepreneur”(Rajesh)… Thanks to Safecity I got this opportunity to meet this autowala (Rajesh) [...]Read more
The experiences of walking alone
Two months ago I was living in Delhi, India. During my lunch break I decided to visit my doctor for ordering new lenses. The clinic is about 500 meters from the office on a busy road. I finished placing my order and walked out of the clinic. Barely 20 steps ahead an 6 feet tall, [...]Read more
Fundamentals don’t change ..
A wise man once said, “fundamentals don’t change” and the thought stayed with me. As I think about it today, after 10 years, I know it applies to societies, communities, countries and people. I want to live in a safe society. It’s a fundamental need. I [...]Read more
Sexual abuse and harassment – it’s independent of gender, geography and physical appearance
We like to stereotype everything. Define. Label. Give names. Isolate. Over the last few months I have tried to understand more about sexual abuse and harassment. My learning is that it’s not just women who face sexual abuse. Children, people of varied sexual [...]Read more
Help us Map the #100UnsafePlaces in Delhi and NCR
We thought we will only have to do this exercise once. We thought we will not speak about this again. We thought the age of terror was over. But two years after the first citizen’s survey of Delhi’s 100 Most Unsafe Places, the survey is being launched again months [...]Read more