00:03you know i have been following the recent sexual harassment cases that was happening in delhi and
00:09i keep thinking about my own relationship with that city i have been living in delhi since 2021
00:15and honestly it has always felt like the city where i have been the most conscious of being a
00:23woman right now i'm in italy for a summer school and it has been almost seven days since here and
00:31i
00:31can i was just thinking i can walk around at midnight without constantly calculating my time
00:37my roots whom i am with or my or even my clothes and i keep imagining why is this freedom
00:45so difficult
00:45to imagine while being in delhi as a woman and before someone asked but what was she wearing
00:52i have been stared at and sexually harassed while being in a full sleeve salwar suit
00:58so what exactly should a woman change our clothes our roots our timings or our lives entirely see
01:08because a dress cannot cause sexual harassment a person chooses to commit it right in while in
01:14delhi or in any parts of india i always ensure that i share my live location while traveling in uber
01:20or
01:20an ola my gps always stays on if i reach a station at late at night i wait until the
01:28daylight
01:28uh to travel back home even as a student i avoid certain routes to the campus after certain hours
01:35those that route which is traveled by hundreds of students on a daily basis and i am very sure so
01:42many of women can relate to this on one of those routes used by hundreds of students every day i
01:48was
01:48once groped by a boy who was barely 12 years and now when the response is restricted to woman's access
01:55to park after certain hours i have to ask something why are women being restricted instead of asking why
02:02public spaces are unsafe for women why tell women what to wear where to go when to leave or whom
02:09they
02:09should be going out with the solution of sexual violence cannot be to make woman's world smaller
02:16a city becomes safer for women not when women disappear from the street after certain hours
02:22like the delhi government announced but when men's violence is confronted and women are free to occupy
02:28the public spaces without fear just like men are occupying these spaces so i was just thinking who
02:36really gets to claim the city as theirs i think definitely not women
02:46is
02:46You
