Anushka Sharma on Bengaluru molestation incident: Teach your kids to respect women

The horrific mass molestation that took place in Bengaluru has left the whole world shocked. Many people, including Bollywood celebrities, have expressed their disappointment and raised their concerns over what transpired in Bengaluru that night. Anushka Sharma, who hails from Bengaluru recently took to Twitter to express her outrage over the incident.

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Anushka not only condemned the incident but also questioned the people who blamed the girls for the shameful incident. Anushka wrote, “Women get molested in a crowd. Bystanders watch, no one steps up to help. Senseless people comment on women’s clothes and say that the cause is late nights. These ‘known’ senseless people are asked to comment in the first place (why?) making absolutely no positive differences to the situation. Even then their comments are rendered relevant because they hold positions of power in the society.”

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She further questioned the bystanders who did nothing to stop the incident and just stood by. Anushka maintained that had people taken action, this horrific incident wouldn’t have taken place. Anushka added, ““In all of this I wonder – why did the bystanders do nothing? Whoever stood and watched, is as much at fault as the perpetrators. Because the collective conscience of the people present could’ve stopped this from happening. So it’s not just those men but also us, as a society, that failed on the night. Because today we live in an environment where a huge crowd thinks it’s ok to just stand and watch.”

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However, Anushka did not just outrage, she even put forth a suggestion on how to try and curb such actions from happening again future. “TEACH your kids to respect women instead of making sons feel more entitled and important. The world will make them feel that anyway. So save your sons from turning into such beasts. And spare us the grief,” concluded the actress.

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