A LEGAL AND MENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVE ON SEXUAL HARRASMENT.

Panelists:

AMRITA KAJARIA

MANASI CHAUDHARI

DEEPIKA BHANDARI

Q. What law is missing currently with respect to sexual harassment in India?

Ms Chaudhari​: India has really strong laws in favour of women. What is missing is the implementation. We have laws on paper, but this does not translate into rights. If you face harassment, you should go and file a police complaint, but not many of us really do. There is a barrier. Therefore, implementation is what is missing in India.

Q. I read an article about you on The Quint. Give…

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There are flowers in your hair,

the soft pink of a rosebud

but what will you do, achilles,

if the flowers are made from blood?

you sing like the world will end,

like you can swallow it raw.

like the world is all yours, achilles,

and you’ve driven away god.

and still achilles is soft,

his love, sunlight on winter skin

till achilles’ eyes shine without reason,

the storm never reaches him.

the days here are long, too precious to lose,

we sink into the earth.

the nights suck the colour out of the sky,

remind us of our worth.

…

But often, in the world’s most crowded streets,

But often, in the din of strife,

There rises an unspeakable desire

After the knowledge of our buried life;

A thirst to spend our fire and restless force

In tracking out our true, original course;

A longing to inquire

Into the mystery of this heart which beats

So wild, so deep in us — to know

Whence our lives come and where they go.

- Matthew Arnold

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