I'm tired of this unsafe, non-supportive, abusive society - which is because of men. Those who claim to be 'good' men and say 'not all men' ,what are you doing about this?

Shouldn’t the focus be on getting men to stop molesting women under the pretext of Holi, and not on locking women up? 

The comment bura na mano Holi hai has become slogan used to excuse the worst kind of behaviour: invading personal space, touching, defacing and groping the most inappropriate places because oops! the hand slipped.

That day I dared to sneak out from a small gap between the opening of the door and the wall to see what happens... and it horrified me.

Author & columnist Kiran Manral writes her first piece for a new column: "I think of the what ifs of the lives that sexual violence brought to an end, lives snuffed out, dreams snuffed out, trauma carried through a life that is inescapably divided into a before and after."