RAPE CULTURE IN DELHI
As a sensitive and self respecting person, my youth was marred with unending incidents of sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual coercion, rape and even physical assault by the men if I said no to sexual advances or triggered a man. Rape culture is a culture where abuse and assault against women is ‘normalized’. A woman is out-numbered by a sea of men who trivialize the act. We live in a vast and unspoken rape culture. I was a victim of this vast criminal culture for years. I was never able to share my story fully and do it justice. I wish to share my experiences in one post with this very unspoken, secret, rape culture in Delhi which both men and women around me were complicit to. 2011 I was right out of art school when a fellow artist asked me to accompany her to a festival of music as an artist. I decided to do so even though I did not wish to work through such platforms or within such a circle since my work was not of that nature. I went with i...