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“Massage therapist” arrested for groping Spanish national in Mumbai | Mumbai News

Mumbai: A 34-year-old “massage therapist” was arrested by the Malwani police on Tuesday for allegedly groping a Spanish national and her Indian friend at an apartment in Malad. He has also been accused of shooting objectionable photos of at least one of the women. Further investigation is underway.The Spanish national came to India on a tourist visa last month. She was being hosted by a Mumbai…

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How safe is Mumbai really for ladies at night?

In general, Mumbai is considered quite safe for women compared to other similar big cities. Violent crimes against women travelers are rare. During the day, you can freely roam around the main tourist areas like Colaba, Bandra, and Juhu without much trouble.

But it's recommended to avoid deserted alleys, poorly lit areas, and traveling alone late at night. Like other metros, incidents of eve-teasing and groping in crowded public transport have occurred. It's best to take prepaid taxis from authorized operators at night. Also, beware of ‘‘fake’’ police asking for bribes.

So what’s the solution for girls who want to stay out late and have a blast in this amazing city?

Get a bike on rent in Mumbai 

Bike rental in Mumbai gives women freedom of movement and control over their travel. Instead of relying on public transport or taxis, you can zip around the city at night in your own vehicle. It's also cheaper than cabs, especially for short distances.

Some key advantages of Mumbai bike rental:

Avoid harassment/groping on public transport

No need to rely on potentially unsafe taxis

Flexibility to go wherever, whenever you want

Saves money compared to cabs

Feel empowered cruising through the nightscape solo or with friends

Easy parking around most hotspots

Where to get a bike on rent in Mumbai 

A company like Rentnhop offers bike rental in Mumbai. You can book them online or by visiting their outlets across the city.

Rates are affordable, starting around ₹500-800 per day for gearless scooters and ranging up to ₹1200-1500 for powerful bikes. You'll likely need to submit a copy of your driver's license and identity card. Make sure you carry all the important documents before you get a bike rental in Mumbai.

Once you've got your stylish ride, you're all set for a fun-filled nocturnal adventure across Mumbai. 

Safety Tips for Girls on Bike Rental in Mumbai: 

Stick to well-lit main roads as much as possible

Wear closed shoes and tied-up hair to avoid accidents

Carry a helmet & wear it at all times

Keep your phone charged in case of emergency

Avoid drinking & driving

Ride defensively by watching speed, spacing from vehicles

Park only in safe areas like malls, petrol pumps

Maintain a moderate speed and avoid stunts

Know basic bike repairs in case of flat tire, overheating engine, etc

So, ladies, bike rental in Mumbai is a smart way to enjoy Mumbai's fiery nightlife while staying safe. Follow basic precautions and get ready for an epic girl's night out in this sizzling seaside city. 

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Swara Bhaskar: I was groped during the promotions of Prem Ratan Dhan Payo in Rajkot

Swara Bhaskar was last seen in Anaarkaali of Aarah wherein she essayed the role of an erotic singer who later fights against sexual abuse and violence. The movie was a reflection of our society and Swara was critically acclaimed for her performance.

Recommended read: Swara Bhaskar trolls back Kamaal R Khan with one sassy tweet!

Swara who is a self-proclaimed feminist has always been outspoken about her stand on gender equality and other issues of importance. In an interview to a leading daily, the talented actor revealed that she was groped during the promotions of Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. Speaking about the incident, Swara said, "The biggest challenge for a woman in a society where you have to be ashamed for what has happened to you, is to fight your impulse. I have done that, I have fought my impulses to make myself react. I have been groped during Prem Ratan Dhan Payo when we landed at Rajkot. I was travelling with Salman Sir and nobody realised, but there were around 2,000 people at the airport to see him. Despite the fact there was security, people got in and it was Anupam Kher who made sure I got into the car. It was crazy. As a female artiste, you know the feeling of being vulnerable in front of a crowd, which is why I connected with my character Anaarkali. You know that when we were shooting the Holi scene in Ranjhanaa, the production has put five boys from the AD team around us in that get-up, to protect us from the rest of the crowd."

When asked if she had hit someone who tried to harass her in any way, she said, "Yes, lots of times! The first time, I slapped a guy for pinching me in Old Delhi. There used to be a Sunday book bazaar there, so I caught hold of the guy. These people don’t expect women to react which is why it’s all the more important for women to react. Because the whole mentality of a molester, groper and an eve-teaser is the anonymity and the confidence that the girl won’t react. The moment you instill that fear in their head that the girl may react and she can beat the s**t out of them, they tend to stay away. I have hit people in Delhi, Chennai and sometimes, I have chased people."

Further speaking about an incident she faced while travelling in Mumbai, she recalled, "I have beaten someone with my umbrella in Mumbai. I was in a train alone — this was my first year in Mumbai — going somewhere to collect a cheque. I was in the first-class compartment and it was in the late afternoon so it was empty. A drug addict got in and when I turned around, I see this man masturbating. For one second, I was scared. It took me a second to realise what was going on, I started yelling at him, and beating him with the umbrella. I tried to catch hold of his collar because I knew the moment the train stops, he will run. I knew I can get him to the police if I hold him back. But the moment the train slowed down, he realised I was holding him to get him to the police, and he jumped off from the other end of the compartment."

Further, she spoke about how women refrain from reporting such serious incidences fearing guilt, shameand dishonor.

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This startup is caught in a harassment scandal dubbed 'India's Uber'

One of India's leading entertainment startups is in the middle of a controversy that's been described as 'India's Uber.' 

Arunabh Kumar, the founder and CEO of The Viral Fever has been accused of sexual harassment by a number of women, a charge he denies as "ludicrous and defamatory."

SEE ALSO: Enough is enough! Citizens of this country demand a public sex offenders registry

The Viral Fever (TVF) was India's first YouTube channel with original content to cross a million subscribers. It created the only Indian series to feature in IMDb's Top 250 TV Shows list and is often regarded as being the "voice of millennials". 

Funded by Tiger Global, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, it's one of the few profitable digital entertainment companies in India. 

Now it's in the spotlight for all of the wrong reasons.  

Wohhooo..!! #TVFPitchers is ranked No. 92 on @IMDb TOP 250 TV with metascore of 8.7. The only Indian entry to do so. pic.twitter.com/R8mIZPt50Z

— The Viral Fever (@TheViralFever) August 31, 2015

The trigger

It all started when an anonymous blogpost entitled 'The Indian Uber - That is TVF' was published on Medium on Sunday. 

Under the pseudonym of "Indian Fowler" (inspired by Susan Fowler, the former Uber employee who cataloged harrowing details of sexism in the company), the writer recounts two years of alleged “abuse and molestation” by Kumar.

She writes: "I was in a meeting at Arunabh’s house with three other women. The meeting was taking place in the hall of the apartment. Arunabh left the meeting in the middle and went inside. Since he was gone for quite a while, I went inside the next room to call him. Suddenly, I felt someone from behind grope my breasts, and when I turned around, it was Arunabh." 

She also mentions the time when she'd been called back to office after work hours and subjected to lewd conversations, including references to "red light districts". 

The support

The allegations prompted other women to publicly share similar accounts on social media: 

Reema Sengupta, a Mumbai-based digital content startup co-founder, described Kumar as a "sleaze" who creeped her out. In a Facebook post she alleges that Kumar touched her inappropriately several times during a shoot — "grazing his hand against my waist" and "touching my shoulder tattoo." 

She says she "couldn't wait for the shoot to be over".

Another woman, Reshma Patra, working with a global consultant firm who met Kumar with work back in 2012, claimed that he once requested her to come home and strip. 

She writes: "Arunabh asks me: "Would you go to my place, and dance for me"? I was like WHAT? I thought he was being funny. But NO, he was Serious. :) He said he would like to get naked & see me stripping & dancing *for him*. He also told me that....he is fond of girls from Calcutta; he has "made out" lot of times, with random girls in 'Cal'.

Aayushi Agarwal, describing herself as a former TVF employee, commented on the original Medium blog: "It [TVF] is indeed no place for a woman. I would never recommend anybody to work there." 

Image: MEDIUM SCREENGRAB

A Bollywood film writer also claimed to be aware of other such incidents.

Sharing this because I know another girl who went through the same ordeal recently. #TVF #ArunabhKumar https://t.co/iAw5WWLu3c

— Apurva Asrani (@Apurvasrani) March 13, 2017

The denial

TVF on Monday posted a strongly worded statement calling the anonymous blog "completely ludicrous and defamatory". It also dismissed the allegations against CEO Kumar as "categorically false, baseless and unverified" and threatened action against the writer. 

Image: MEDIUM SCREENGRAB

TVF's Casting Director Nidhi Bisht, the only woman in the company's top brass, said, "I am as shocked as you guys are." and called TVF "one of the best places for women to work".

My side. pic.twitter.com/cS6tfD2dVd

— Nidhi NEETU Bisht (@EkThapaTiger) March 13, 2017

Meanwhile, in an interview with the tabloid newspaper Mumbai Mirror, Kumar has called the blog "slanderous". He has "unconditionally and unequivocally" denied all of the allegations and said, "If there is a remote chance that I have done any wrong, let me be persecuted."

Also, responding to one of the Facebook allegations, he said: "The kind of insinuations the FB post makes are untrue. I am a heterosexual, single man and when I find a woman sexy, I tell her she's sexy. I compliment women. Is that wrong? Having said that, I am very particular about my behavior - I will approach a woman, but never force myself." 

The reactions

Kumar's clarification may have done him more harm than good.

All the people who wanted Arunabh to atleast respond to the situation, wasn't it better earlier?#ArunabhKumar #TVF pic.twitter.com/Ws31FkfCtv

— Manoj (@notmanoj) March 14, 2017

Think he just got himself Effed in the A, by saying that. (Via https://t.co/NwKWwQmdf5) pic.twitter.com/fzhef5kE4F

— 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 (@oothikicha) March 14, 2017

The #Tvf guy demonstrates how to dig your own grave. pic.twitter.com/cIruwFyliq

— Veena Venugopal (@veenavenugopal) March 14, 2017

Social media users reacted with anger:

And THAT my friends is why "there are so few female comics" a question that I get CONSTANTLY asked as if I should have the ans to the ques.

— Aditi Mittal (@awryaditi) March 13, 2017

TVF's rebuttal suggests no investigation of any sort. If they're all lies, what better way to prove that than investigate impartially?

— Rohan (@mojorojo) March 13, 2017

Don’t care if you’re friend, foe, in the ‘industry’. If this volume of women are coming out against you. You may have a terrible problem.

— Sorabh Pant (@hankypanty) March 13, 2017

Have enough women spoken up for Team TVF to take the allegations of sexual abuse seriously or do they have a higher number in mind?

— वरुण,ooooomnoooooo (@varungrover) March 13, 2017

The best way to hit back at TVF as common folk is to boycott then. Unsubscribe. Delete the app. Stop watching their shows. Unfollow twitter

— BookBear (@MyBookJacket) March 14, 2017

Even more shocking that TVF issued such a lame, insensitive response without investigating the matter! #ArunabhKumar #BoycottTVF https://t.co/kK9DQDCysW

— Vishakha (@vishakhatalreja) March 13, 2017

Mashable has reached out to TVF for further comment and will update this post accordingly. 

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'Bois locker room' case pushes us to examine if — and how — technology is shaping misogynistic attitudes towards sex

In 2016, a clip of the then US presidential candidate Donald Trump went viral. In it, he was heard bragging about forcibly kissing and groping women. Following the cascade of censure, rage and shock across the world, Trump dismissed the swaggering braggadocio as nothing but “locker-room talk”.

The internet exploded with explanations on what this phrase that had now sprung into our living rooms meant. Urban Dictionary defines locker-room talk as “any manner of conversation that polite society dictates be held privately — with small groups of like-minded, similarly gendered peers — due to its sexually charged language, situations or innuendos”.

The term has, since, so seamlessly permeated into our lives that when the “bois locker room” scandal broke out last week, we knew instinctively what it might have entailed even without knowing the details. In December last year, a WhatsApp group made by boys from an IB school in Mumbai came to light. This group, too, was littered with demeaning and denigrating language about girls. The two incidents have, once again, highlighted one question:

What is the place of technology in the universe of patriarchy and rape culture?

We have long been sitting on a powder keg of a deeply misogynistic society that predates social media. Technology may have democratised gender-based violence but has certainly not created it.

“The content of what people are saying is not new. People spoke like this even before the internet,” said filmmaker and writer Paromita Vohra, who created Agents of Ishq, a website that aims to give sex a good name. “Technology and society have a dynamic relationship. Human beings bring all good and bad qualities while using it,” she said.

What we’re seeing enhanced today, is a kind of language that has been the fulcrum of misogynistic media, both in India and abroad, and which is freely available. This is what makes us react with shock and sadness when we see children engage in what we think is unimaginable. “You’re seeing a profanity that is a mixture of misogyny in Indian and western media. We know children can be cruel. We know about bullying and so on. But now, these are dimensions that are dystopic. We need to focus on the violence, not the sexual content in the group chats,” said Vohra.

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Technology and society have a dynamic relationship. Human beings bring all good and bad qualities while using it, says Paromita Vohra. Image for representation only. AP Photo

Even though technology is not responsible per se for these attitudes, social media platforms do play an insidious role in perpetuating them. Social media websites currently claim that they are nothing but platforms, without control on the content posted by users. But they routinely monitor and delete photos they deem inappropriate. These include photos of fat women, queer people, people with disabilities.

“This only reflects the systemic beliefs of misogyny held by the people in power who make company policies,” said Richa Kaul Padte, author of Cyber Sexy, a book that rethinks pornography.

There is a scene in Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People where Connell, the charming, intelligent high schooler, is sitting with his two buddies, Rob and Eric. Rob whisks out his phone and shows photos of his naked girlfriend to the other two. Eric taps parts of her body on the screen with his fingers. Connell takes one look at the phone and says: “Bit fucked up showing these to people, isn’t it?”

Women recognise in this betrayal a certain kind of violence that curdles any idea of intimacy or consent. This violence is everywhere — on television, in films, on pornography sites.

“Consent is an ongoing conversation that needs to happen. But we are just not talking about it,” said Kaul Padte. “Porn is just one type of media which is being consumed with fewer restrictions. Mainstream porn is teaching young people things that are not representative of sex or consent. But we’re not creating a healthy context in which kids are accessing porn,” she added.

And the context is sex education, an acceptance of the fact that kids will be curious about sexuality and will watch porn. “This doesn’t mean that all of this would ensure that violence against women would not occur. But at least, we will provide a context in which we could hope that it would not occur,” said Kaul Padte.

Dr Avinash De Sousa, a visiting psychiatrist in three Mumbai schools highlighted the importance of this. He said it was imperative to start sex education, which includes cyber bullying, stalking, rational digital usage, as early as classes five and six.

“Thanks to the internet and easy access to information, kids know everything about sexuality at the ages of 10,11 or 12. Children are far ahead in these matters than we were,” said De Sousa.

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Cyber experts said that cyber crime was a tricky territory, all things considered. “Crime is a product of victim, opportunity and offender. Now the triad has moved online. While the victim and offender dynamics remain the same, the opportunity provided by technology leads to the perception that it is okay to do certain things. Anonymity, end-to-end encryption, safety about a closed group give a false sense of superiority and invincibility. But in reality, you’re leaving breadcrumbs everywhere,” said Brijesh Singh, former cybersecurity head of Maharashtra. “Boundaries get blurred and children often don’t even know they are venturing into cyber-crime,” he added.

But criminal jurisprudence has an abiding, underlying doctrine — ignorantia juris non excusat, or ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Groups such as “bois locker room” then, could be a collective failure of society, of teachers and parents, in not making safe spaces for discussing cyber hygiene or netiquette.

In the absence of these spaces and nebulous boundaries, young victims don’t even know how and whether to report a crime. “In the Delhi case, the girls spoke out. But often, they don’t come forward because there is some amount of shame attached to it. Also, they are afraid that their internet freedoms would be curtailed,” said De Sousa.

These discussions, he said, can be had without intruding upon children’s privacy. “When you give your child a phone, you should at least be aware of what is on it. Parents should sit with their kids and ask them to show the apps that are on their phone, without asking to read the chats or messages.”

Supreme court advocate Khushbu Jain regularly gets cases — many sexual in nature — where conversations or photos shared between friend in private make their way through screenshots to others. She has mediated between kids, in front of their families, police and NGOs where the victim and offender were made to delete things on their phones.

Jain, who specialises in criminal and cyber law, said that the Delhi incident was a wake-up call for bringing about awareness of laws and safety measures around the internet and social media platforms. “Think of it this way,” she said, “From the moment you learn to drive, you have to also learn what happens when you drive wrongly, what the road and traffic safety laws are and what the punishment is when you break the law. This is required at a nascent age,” she said.

Both Singh and Jain highlighted a problem that makes evidence gathering in cyber crime a tardy process. “Companies have privacy policies which stops them from sharing data and content. So, law enforcement doesn’t move in real time. When you examine anything post facto, there are barriers. Stuff is deleted. A pseudonym comes up. Device address are changed and so on,” Singh said. “What has happened is, a country’s sovereignty has become subordinate to the privacy policies of these companies,” he added.

To curtail such incidents, platforms too, need to be held accountable. Jain had another analogy to elucidate this point: Imagine a bar that has served alcohol to those under 21 years of age, she said. “If the police find a bunch of teenagers drinking, who do you think will be arrested?”

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11 Bollywood Actresses Who Were Harassed In Public

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11 Bollywood Actresses Who Were Harassed In Public

Hindi Film Industry popularly known as the Bollywood is the second largest Film Industry in the World. The actors and actresses in Bollywood are extremely popular not only in India but throughout the World.  They also have a huge fan following and some of the fans are so fanatical that they would do anything to have a glimpse of their favorite star. The alluring beauty and glamour of the Bollywood actresses have made them rule over the Film audience.  The fame and beauty they possess happen to be a potential danger to these actresses when they make public appearances.

1. Gul Panag

Gul Panag is an actress, voice actress, and model born to Lt.Gen. Panag and since her father was in the Indian army, she has had the opportunity to live in many places in India. Even as a student, she has been interested in Sports and Public speaking. She participated in the Delhi Marathon in 2010. She disclosed later, that while running the Marathon, few men had purposely run too close to her and started to touch her.

2. Sonam Kapoor

Sonam is one of the highest-paid actresses in the industry and the daughter of actor Anil Kapoor. In June 2013, Sonam participated in the promotion of the film Raanjhana in which she acted opposite South Indian actor Dhanush in which she was praised for her performance. The promotion was scheduled at a local city theatre, where some fans tried to grope Sonam and she was protected and taken away from the mob safely by her co-star Dhanush.

3. Gauhar Khan

Gauahar Khan was born into a Muslim family in Pune. She is into modeling and acting. She stood forth in the Femina Miss India Contest in 2002. This actress underwent harassment of a different kind in a different manner. She was on the sets of a reality show called India’s Raw Star in December 2014, when a man suddenly walked up to her and slapped her in public. Later, there were reports that the man had slapped her because he was disgusted with the dress she was wearing, as it was too short.

4. Sushmita Sen

Sushmita Sen is a model, actress, and winner of the Miss Universe Pageant of 1994. Miss Universe is no exception to being harassed in Public. She had gone to inaugurate a Jewellery store in the year 2011. Everything seemed to go fine. Once she moved out of the store, to get into the car, a huge crowd rushed towards her, before she could react, the men in the crowd molested her.

5. Sonakshi Sinha

Sonakshi Sinha known as junior Shotgun is the daughter of Shatrughan Sinha a former actor and at present the Member of the Parliament. In 2010, Sonakshi participated in an event. She was at an event when she was harassed by a group of men who tried to touch her, improperly.

6. Bipasha Basu

A man reportedly groped Bipasha Basu soon after she entered Rain, a nightspot in Juhu at around 11 pm on February 28, 2003. Boyfriend John Abraham chased the man, who tried to flee through the exit and thrashed him.

7. Esha Deol

A man tried to take advantage of the crowd at Pune’s premiere of Dus at E-Square on August 11, 2005, to get extremely close to Esha Deol and misbehaved with her. Deol realized what the man was up to, slapped him and nonchalantly walked away.

8. Celina Jaitely

2005 proved to be unlucky for Celina too as she too faced a similar incident during one of her interviews in Mauritius.

9. Katrina Kaif

The beautiful actress was mobbed and molested by the crowd in Kolkata, where she had gone to attend a Durga puja function, in 2005.

10. Minissha Lamba

The actress was molested at a Goa beach, where she was shooting for the cover of a magazine.

11. Koena Mitra

The actress was attacked in a Mumbai hotel where she had to perform for New Year. The man came up to her and asked for a few photographs. The actress obliged but was later shocked when the man started to molest her touching her private parts.

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#Ek_Drummer Ne #12_Saal Ki #Ladki Ko #Groping Kiya (#Mumbai)

#Ek_Drummer Ne #12_Saal Ki #Ladki Ko #Groping Kiya (#Mumbai)

Ek Drummer Ne 12 Saal Ki Ladki Ko Groping Kiya (Mumbai)

Ek drummer ne 12 Saal ki minor girl ko uski society mein groping (sexually touch) kiya (Andheri East)

Accused name : Manoj Todankar(24)

Yeh incident society ke CCTV footage mein capture hua

Police ne Track Kiya aur accused ko Kandivali (East) se arrest kiya

Accused ne claim Kiya ki voh bohat zayda drunk Kiya tha

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#MeToo movement: Kate Sharma withdraws sexual harassment case she filed against Subhash Ghai | Hindi Movie News

In a shocking turn of events, model-actress Kate Sharma, who had accused filmmaker Subhash Ghai of sexual misconduct and harassment, withdrew her complaint against the director from the police.

According to a report in Mid Day, the actress told the cops in a written note that she was “fed up” with the way her case was being handled. She said that she wants to take care of her ailing mother and that her family has been quite disturbed after she levelled sexual harassment case against the filmmaker.

Elaborating further on her reason to step back, she reportedly added that people are really making fun of the entire #MeToo campaign. Nothing has happened, nobody has been arrested. If cops are only busy registering FIRs, then what is the use of this entire campaign? She also stated that the cops asked her if she wanted to register an FIR, but she said that she doesn’t see any reason for moving ahead to get justice as whatever she had to say is in the public domain. The actress added that Ghai and her were very good friends, but he destroyed everything.

Confirming the development in the case, a senior Mumbai Police officer told Mid Day that their officers had approached the actress again to record a detailed statement for starting up with their investigations. However, she reportedly informed them in written note that she wants to withdraw her case as her mother is unwell and she wants to take care of her family.

Sharma had reportedly alleged that Subhash Ghai asked her to massage him in front of a roomful of people on August 6, after which he groped her and tried to kiss her. She had filed a written complaint about the alleged incident on October 12. Police had approached her on October 25 to record her statement, but she sought more time. Ghai, on the other hand, had completely rubbished all the allegations levelled against him. Reacting to all the accusations, he had taken to social media to share his thoughts.

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10 Bollywood Actresses Who Were Harassed In Public 10. Katrina Kaif Katrina Kaif the ravishing beauty and the favorite actress of the Hindi film goers, had been harassed in Public when she had gone to attend a Durga Puja function in 2005. It was organized by a South Kolkatta’s Durga Puja Committee. The gathering was huge and when the Puja was over, a huge crowd rushed from the back and she was mobbed and molested by the crowd. 9. Koena Mitra Koena belongs to a Bengali Hindu family. She has done many music videos and commercials and is trained in Ballet. There had been a news that she was groped by some men, when she was in the car park, after the National Awards function, which she later denied, saying she was not aware as to why and how such a news was making its rounds. But a case has been filed and the person has been arrested for molesting her in New Year’s party in a five star hotel in Mumbai in 2008.This news has been made Public and it is confirmed. 8. Minissha Lamba Minissha Lamba was born into a New- Delhi based Sikh family and has played supporting and lead roles in Hindi movies and is a model as well. She had been to Goa for a photo shoot for a Men’s magazine in the year 2011. When the photos were being shot on a beach, she was molested by a group of people, which shocked her. But she went on to finish the shoot after she got over the initial shock. 7. Celina Jaitley Celina Jaitley was the fourth runner- up in the Femina Miss India Universe in 2001. She is the daughter of an Indian Army Colonel from Punjab. In 2005, she faced a molestation incident in Mauritius, when she was giving an interview. She came back to India terribly upset about the incident and ensured that the person was arrested. 6. Sonakshi Sinha Sonakshi Sinha known as junior Shotgun is the daughter of Satrughan Sinha a former actor and at present the Member of the Parliament. In 2010, Sonakshi participated in an event. She was at an event, when she was harassed by a group of men who tried to touch her, improperly. 5. Sushmita Sen Sushmita Sen is a model, actress and the winner of the Miss Universe Pageant of 1994.Miss Universe is no exception to being harassed in Public. She had gone to inaugurate a Jewellery store in the year 2011. Everything seemed to go fine. Once she moved out of the store, to get into the car, a huge crowd rushed towards her, before she could react, the men in the crowd molested her. 4. Gauhar Khan Gauahar Khan was born into a Muslim Family in Pune. She is into modeling and acting. She stood fourth in the Femina Miss India Contest in 2002.This actress underwent harassment of a different kind in a different manner. She was on the sets of a reality show called India’s Raw Star on December 2014, when a man suddenly walked up to her and slapped her in public. Later, there were reports that the man had slapped her because he was disgusted with the dress she was wearing, as it was too short. 3. BipashaBasu Bipasha Basu though often cited as a sex symbol, is one of the most popular and highest paid actresses, who comes under the high-profile celebrities in India. Bipasha attended the promotional event of the film Raaz 3 in which she had acted, in 2012. It was held in Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujarat, where she was harassed by the crowd and there have been reports that a man even tugged at Bipasha’s skirt. 2. Sonam Kapoor Sonam is one of the highest paid actresses in the industry and the daughter of actor Anil Kapoor. In June 2013, Sonam participated in the promotion of the film Raanjhana in which she acted opposite South Indian actor Dhanush in which she was praised for her performance. The promotion was scheduled at a local city theater, where some fans tried to grope Sonam and she was protected and taken away from the mob safely by her co-star Dhanush. 1. Gul Panag Gul Panag is an actress, voice actress and model born to Lt.Gen. Panag and since her father was in the Indian army, she has had the opportunity to live in many places in India. Even as a student, she has been interested in Sports and Public speaking. She participated in the Delhi Marathon in 2010. She disclosed later, that while running the Marathon, few men had purposely run too close to her and started to touch her. Alan Walker - Fade [NCS Release] (4:20) NoCopyrightSounds YouTube Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7SZ5SBzyY Social Network Links : Follow Alan Walker : • https://www.facebook.com/alanwalkermusic/ • https://soundcloud.com/alanwalker • https://twitter.com/IAmAlanWalker • https://www.youtube.com/user/DjWalkzz • https://www.instagram.com/alanwalkermusic/ For More Videos : http://goo.gl/8NWCQ0 Follow us on facebook- https://www.facebook.com/PassionateVideo/?ref=hl Hello, This is Moumita Pal Here. I declare that all slideshow belong me. Photos all are taken from Google Image search and using advanced image search option..

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Air India adds 'female-only' row to its flights

An Air India Boeing 777 lifts off from San Francisco International Airport on Oct. 23, 2016. (Photo: Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren, special for USA TODAY)

Air India is adding a female-only row of seats on its domestic flights, though company officials insist the move is not in response to alleged groping incidents.

“We will be reserving the third row — six seats — in the economy class of the aircraft for female passengers travelling alone,” Meenakshi Malik, Air India’s revenue management chief, told The Hindu newspaper of India. “We feel, as national carriers, it is our responsibility to enhance comfort level to female passengers. There are a lot of female passengers who travel alone with us and we will be blocking a few seats for them.”

Air India said it would not charge a fee for women requesting to be seated in the section. The seats, which will be made available starting Wednesday (Jan. 18), can be requested up to an hour before check-in.

Initial media reports tied Air India’s move to alleged groping incidents in which women haven been targeted on recent Air India flights. But the carrier has denied that is its motivation.

"We are doing this as we get lots of requests by female passengers at the check-in counter who want to sit next to another woman, rather than a male passenger," G. Prasada Rao, Air India's general manager for corporate communications, said to Reuters. "It is not connected to the reports of sexual assaults. It's more to do with the fact that economy class doesn't have much space to move around easily and comfortably for women, so this option will give them more choice."

Regardless of the reason, Air India's female-only row comes after two incidents that have reportedly happened on its flights recently.

In December, a woman claimed she was wakened from her sleep after being groped by a man who moved to what had been an empty seat next to her. That incident is alleged to have occurred on an Air India flight from Mumbai to New York.

In January, a female Air India flight attendant alleged she was subjected to unwanted touching and vulgar language by a male passenger on a flight from Delhi to Muscat.

Reuters says the men were referred to police in each of the incidents.

Despite Air India’s assertion that its new female-only row is not a response to such incidents, The Times of India notes the carrier also has revealed plans to keep plastic handcuffs on all of its flights so crews can restrain passengers.

“We used to carry restrainers only on our international flights but will now have them on both domestic and international flights. All our aircraft will have two pairs of restraining devices,” Air India chairman Ashwani Lohani chairman said to the Times.

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In 2016, a clip of the then US presidential candidate Donald Trump went viral. In it, he was heard bragging about forcibly kissing and groping women. Following the cascade of censure, rage and shock across the world, Trump dismissed the swaggering braggadocio as nothing but “locker-room talk”. The internet exploded with explanations on what this phrase that had now sprung into our living rooms meant. Urban Dictionary defines locker-room talk as “any manner of conversation that polite society dictates be held privately — with small groups of like-minded, similarly gendered peers — due to its sexually charged language, situations or innuendos”. The term has, since, so seamlessly permeated into our lives that when the “bois locker room” scandal broke out last week, we knew instinctively what it might have entailed even without knowing the details. In December last year, a WhatsApp group made by boys from an IB school in Mumbai came to light. This group, too, was littered with demeaning and denigrating language about girls. The two incidents have, once again, highlighted one question: What is the place of technology in the universe of patriarchy and rape culture? We have long been sitting on a powder keg of a deeply misogynistic society that predates social media. Technology may have democratised gender-based violence but has certainly not created it. “The content of what people are saying is not new. People spoke like this even before the internet,” said filmmaker and writer Paromita Vohra, who created Agents of Ishq, a website that aims to give sex a good name. “Technology and society have a dynamic relationship. Human beings bring all good and bad qualities while using it,” she said. What we’re seeing enhanced today, is a kind of language that has been the fulcrum of misogynistic media, both in India and abroad, and which is freely available. This is what makes us react with shock and sadness when we see children engage in what we think is unimaginable. “You’re seeing a profanity that is a mixture of misogyny in Indian and western media. We know children can be cruel. We know about bullying and so on. But now, these are dimensions that are dystopic. We need to focus on the violence, not the sexual content in the group chats,” said Vohra. *** Technology and society have a dynamic relationship. Human beings bring all good and bad qualities while using it, says Paromita Vohra. Image for representation only. AP Photo Even though technology is not responsible per se for these attitudes, social media platforms do play an insidious role in perpetuating them. Social media websites currently claim that they are nothing but platforms, without control on the content posted by users. But they routinely monitor and delete photos they deem inappropriate. These include photos of fat women, queer people, people with disabilities. “This only reflects the systemic beliefs of misogyny held by the people in power who make company policies,” said Richa Kaul Padte, author of Cyber Sexy, a book that rethinks pornography. There is a scene in Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People where Connell, the charming, intelligent high schooler, is sitting with his two buddies, Rob and Eric. Rob whisks out his phone and shows photos of his naked girlfriend to the other two. Eric taps parts of her body on the screen with his fingers. Connell takes one look at the phone and says: “Bit fucked up showing these to people, isn’t it?” Women recognise in this betrayal a certain kind of violence that curdles any idea of intimacy or consent. This violence is everywhere — on television, in films, on pornography sites. “Consent is an ongoing conversation that needs to happen. But we are just not talking about it,” said Kaul Padte. “Porn is just one type of media which is being consumed with fewer restrictions. Mainstream porn is teaching young people things that are not representative of sex or consent. But we’re not creating a healthy context in which kids are accessing porn,” she added. And the context is sex education, an acceptance of the fact that kids will be curious about sexuality and will watch porn. “This doesn’t mean that all of this would ensure that violence against women would not occur. But at least, we will provide a context in which we could hope that it would not occur,” said Kaul Padte. Dr Avinash De Sousa, a visiting psychiatrist in three Mumbai schools highlighted the importance of this. He said it was imperative to start sex education, which includes cyber bullying, stalking, rational digital usage, as early as classes five and six. “Thanks to the internet and easy access to information, kids know everything about sexuality at the ages of 10,11 or 12. Children are far ahead in these matters than we were,” said De Sousa. *** Cyber experts said that cyber crime was a tricky territory, all things considered. “Crime is a product of victim, opportunity and offender. Now the triad has moved online. While the victim and offender dynamics remain the same, the opportunity provided by technology leads to the perception that it is okay to do certain things. Anonymity, end-to-end encryption, safety about a closed group give a false sense of superiority and invincibility. But in reality, you’re leaving breadcrumbs everywhere,” said Brijesh Singh, former cybersecurity head of Maharashtra. “Boundaries get blurred and children often don’t even know they are venturing into cyber-crime,” he added. But criminal jurisprudence has an abiding, underlying doctrine — ignorantia juris non excusat, or ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Groups such as “bois locker room” then, could be a collective failure of society, of teachers and parents, in not making safe spaces for discussing cyber hygiene or netiquette. In the absence of these spaces and nebulous boundaries, young victims don’t even know how and whether to report a crime. “In the Delhi case, the girls spoke out. But often, they don’t come forward because there is some amount of shame attached to it. Also, they are afraid that their internet freedoms would be curtailed,” said De Sousa. These discussions, he said, can be had without intruding upon children’s privacy. “When you give your child a phone, you should at least be aware of what is on it. Parents should sit with their kids and ask them to show the apps that are on their phone, without asking to read the chats or messages.” Supreme court advocate Khushbu Jain regularly gets cases — many sexual in nature — where conversations or photos shared between friend in private make their way through screenshots to others. She has mediated between kids, in front of their families, police and NGOs where the victim and offender were made to delete things on their phones. Jain, who specialises in criminal and cyber law, said that the Delhi incident was a wake-up call for bringing about awareness of laws and safety measures around the internet and social media platforms. “Think of it this way,” she said, “From the moment you learn to drive, you have to also learn what happens when you drive wrongly, what the road and traffic safety laws are and what the punishment is when you break the law. This is required at a nascent age,” she said. Both Singh and Jain highlighted a problem that makes evidence gathering in cyber crime a tardy process. “Companies have privacy policies which stops them from sharing data and content. So, law enforcement doesn’t move in real time. When you examine anything post facto, there are barriers. Stuff is deleted. A pseudonym comes up. Device address are changed and so on,” Singh said. “What has happened is, a country’s sovereignty has become subordinate to the privacy policies of these companies,” he added. To curtail such incidents, platforms too, need to be held accountable. Jain had another analogy to elucidate this point: Imagine a bar that has served alcohol to those under 21 years of age, she said. “If the police find a bunch of teenagers drinking, who do you think will be arrested?”

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11 Famous Bollywood Actress $exually H@rassed & M0lested In Public

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11 Famous Bollywood Actress $exually H@rassed & M0lested In Public

Hindi Film Industry popularly known as the Bollywood is the second largest Film Industry in the World. The actors and actresses in Bollywood are extremely popular not only in India but throughout the World.  They also have a huge fan following and some of the fans are so fanatical that they would do anything to have a glimpse of their favorite star. The alluring beauty and glamour of the Bollywood actresses have made them rule over the Film audience.  The fame and beauty they possess happen to be a potential danger to these actresses when they make public appearances.

1. Gul Panag

Gul Panag is an actress, voice actress, and model born to Lt.Gen. Panag and since her father was in the Indian army, she has had the opportunity to live in many places in India. Even as a student, she has been interested in Sports and Public speaking. She participated in the Delhi Marathon in 2010. She disclosed later, that while running the Marathon, few men had purposely run too close to her and started to touch her.

2. Sonam Kapoor

Sonam is one of the highest-paid actresses in the industry and the daughter of actor Anil Kapoor. In June 2013, Sonam participated in the promotion of the film Raanjhana in which she acted opposite South Indian actor Dhanush in which she was praised for her performance. The promotion was scheduled at a local city theatre, where some fans tried to grope Sonam and she was protected and taken away from the mob safely by her co-star Dhanush.

3. Gauhar Khan

Gauahar Khan was born into a Muslim family in Pune. She is into modeling and acting. She stood forth in the Femina Miss India Contest in 2002. This actress underwent harassment of a different kind in a different manner. She was on the sets of a reality show called India’s Raw Star in December 2014, when a man suddenly walked up to her and slapped her in public. Later, there were reports that the man had slapped her because he was disgusted with the dress she was wearing, as it was too short.

4. Sushmita Sen

Sushmita Sen is a model, actress, and winner of the Miss Universe Pageant of 1994. Miss Universe is no exception to being harassed in Public. She had gone to inaugurate a Jewellery store in the year 2011. Everything seemed to go fine. Once she moved out of the store, to get into the car, a huge crowd rushed towards her, before she could react, the men in the crowd molested her.

5. Sonakshi Sinha

Sonakshi Sinha known as junior Shotgun is the daughter of Shatrughan Sinha a former actor and at present the Member of the Parliament. In 2010, Sonakshi participated in an event. She was at an event when she was harassed by a group of men who tried to touch her, improperly.

6. Bipasha Basu

A man reportedly groped Bipasha Basu soon after she entered Rain, a nightspot in Juhu at around 11 pm on February 28, 2003. Boyfriend John Abraham chased the man, who tried to flee through the exit and thrashed him.

7. Esha Deol

A man tried to take advantage of the crowd at Pune’s premiere of Dus at E-Square on August 11, 2005, to get extremely close to Esha Deol and misbehaved with her. Deol realized what the man was up to, slapped him and nonchalantly walked away.

8. Celina Jaitely

2005 proved to be unlucky for Celina too as she too faced a similar incident during one of her interviews in Mauritius.

9. Katrina Kaif

The beautiful actress was mobbed and molested by the crowd in Kolkata, where she had gone to attend a Durga puja function, in 2005.

10. Minissha Lamba

The actress was molested at a Goa beach, where she was shooting for the cover of a magazine.

11. Koena Mitra

The actress was attacked in a Mumbai hotel where she had to perform for New Year. The man came up to her and asked for a few photographs. The actress obliged but was later shocked when the man started to molest her touching her private parts.