As a woman walking on the street, I have faced many horrors. To all the men out there, all I ask is respect us so we can fearlessly walk on the streets. 

Being a woman, wherever you are, you're always going to be living a life at the edge, worrying about your safety. This is how it is. Even if people may believe otherwise.

Control of women's voices, lives, bodies is the norm, under the guise of 'protection' and 'women's safety'. Can we ever achieve Fearless Freedom? Activist Kavita Krishnan's new book explores this.

Over the past decade, crime against women has taken on such horrifying proportions and nuances, that women have now started becoming suspicious of everything.

An average Indian young woman does not have the luxury to just BE, to loiter, to be alone with her thoughts, like men can. What empowerment?