Sad but true - I am a woman and I feel unsafe being one!

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I think there is no woman who has not gone through some form of sexual harassment in this country.
It is sad that I cant step outside my home without a hint of fear in my mind. I have had experiences standing at my bus stop as a child, with a friend of mine waiting for my school bus to come, when a man in a big car took rounds throwing pieces of paper with his number written on it. Then there was another time when I was standing outside my house waiting for a friend to come pick me up when a car stopped and refused to leave until he saw my friend come. For God's sake right outside my house?!? I would like to state another example when me and my friend were returning from the market in a rickshaw and we were followed by a car full of men passing lewd comments and the rickshaw guy had the sense of taking a different route. When he dropped us home he asked us "Didi kya aap un logo ko jaanti thi"? and i replied saying no, and his answer was "isliye maine doosra raasta le liya". What i'm trying to say here is that it is not just the poor and uneducated people to blame every single time, there are "educated men" from well to do families in big cars doing this!!! Another time i was stopped by a well spoken man on the defence colony - kotla road again in a big car asking if i want to be friends and whether he can drop me home, when i said no he kept following me, i had to go to a crowded place in my market in the colony to get away from him.
Another thing i would like to say is that the I am a resident of Defence Colony which is "supposedly" a colony for the defence people, should be safe but sadly it isn't. Nearly every evening i notice prostitutes standing in nooks and corners & cars stopping and picking them up inside the colony itself. There are a number of lady boys who stand right at road that turns into Defence Colony opposite the Lajpat Nagar metro station. At the turn there is a police check post at night for so called "security reasons" and they stop cars as and when they want (only when they're bored or want to make some money). Do they not know that these lady boys/prostitutes stand there and get picked up every night??? What is the police doing??? It happens right under their noses and they're oblivious to it!!!
This is a great initiative but i hope it continues and is not short lived. We really need to do something to bring about a change in the mindset of people in this country which ironically worships goddesses !!