Malaika Arora Shares Poignant Post After The Bengaluru Incident. It's Viral

In an Instagram post with a plain black image, actor Malaika Arora has expressed her outrage over the mass molestation of women in Bengaluru by sharing a poignant note on women's safety and victim-blaming. The note was first shared by Facebook user Darshan Mondkar amid an outcry over the attack on women in India's IT city on New Year's Eve.

"So, I went out with my girlfriends to party on the crowded streets of a Metropolitan city, they came out in large numbers and molested us...... But my safety is my responsibility so..." says the post.
The note also refers to the attack on women at a pub in Mangalore in 2009, and the December 16 gang-rape and murder of a young student, dubbed Nirbhaya, in a moving bus - an incident that jolted India.

"The next time I went to a discotheque, it was enclosed and had bouncers, they came into the place and beat us up and ripped our clothes off.......But my safety is my responsibility so.... I went to a movie with a Male friend for company, they pushed me into a bus and shoved an iron rod inside my privates.......But my safety is my responsibility, so......" says the note.

It goes on to list several other instances of assault on women and ends with: "I am that Indian Woman who can excel at sports, win medals for the Country, join the Army, become a CEO, go to the outer space and be the talk of the world.....only if I can come out of this bathroom......But my safety is my responsibility, so...."

Malaika Arora is the latest to express anger at the Bengaluru incident after other celebrities like Akshay Kumar, Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma and Farhan Akhtar.

Since being shared yesterday, Malaika's post has received over 23,000 'likes' and hundreds of comments on Instagram.
 

 

So, I went out with my girlfriends to party on the crowded streets of a Metropolitan city, they came out in large numbers and molested us...... But my safety is my responsibility so... The next time I went to a discotheque, it was enclosed and had bouncers, they came into the place and beat us up and ripped our clothes off.......But my safety is my responsibility so.... I went to a movie with a Male friend for company, they pushed me into a bus and shoved an iron rod inside my privates.......But my safety is my responsibility, so...... I went to my college, fully clad in a "decent" salwaar kameez, they caught me around a corner and squeezed my bum......But my safety is my responsibility, so...... I decided to stay at home in the comfort of my own house, they broke down the door, tied me up and videotaped the things they made me do with them.......But my safety is my responsibility, so...... I went back to live with my family feeling safe and secure with them, they were my uncles but they didn't think of me as their niece when they made me take off my clothes and have their way with me.......But my safety is my responsibility, so....... These days I sit in the bathroom, locked tight, not coming out at all. They stand on the terrace opposite to it peeking in through the bathroom window, but I don't take a bath.......because my safety is my responsibility....... Now, they have me exactly where they have always wanted me, my spirit broken, my ability to fight back gone, my will to do something destroyed.....at their mercy.....still stuck in the bathroom.....dreading the time when the knocking starts on the door as they come to get me here too. I am that Indian Woman who can excel at sports, win medals for the Country, join the Army, become a CEO, go to the outer space and be the talk of the world.....only if I can come out of this bathroom......But my safety is my responsibility, so.... Disclaimer: Girls wearing short clothes and drinking and partying are copying the Western culture.Boys who molest them r copying the Indian culture???

A photo posted by Malaika Arora Khan (@malaikaarorakhanofficial) on Jan 5, 2017 at 1:22am PST

Mr Mondkar's post, shared on January 3, also won praise on Facebook with over 1,200 reactions and almost 1,000 shares.