Anurag Kashyap’s daughter Aaliyah Kashyap opens up on mental harassment after her pic wearing lingerie went viral

Anurag Kashyap’s daughter Aaliyah Kashyap had been at the receiving end of trolls and hate comments after she posted a picture of herself wearing lingerie. Aaliyah posted a picture of herself in lingerie wear on Instagram as part of her endorsement for the innerwear brand. Ever since that, Anurag Kashyap’s daughter was subjected to hate comments on social media. Today, Aaliyah shared a heartfelt post on Instagram giving voice to her feelings and opening up on the mental harassment she has been subjected to in the last few days. She also shared screenshots of the threats she has received from anonymous users.

“The past few weeks have been really hard on my mental health. Ever since I posted a photo of me in lingerie, I have been getting the most vile, degrading, and disgusting comments (sic),” she said in a statement and admitted that this has scared her. “I have never felt more frightened than I have in the past few weeks to the point where I considered deleting my Instagram.” Aaliyah also revealed that she contemplated deleting Instagram and ignore the harassment but stressed the need to speak about this because this is what contributes to the “rape culture”.

Aaliyah Kashyap added, “I have tried to ignore the harassment and shrug it off but the truth is that we need to speak about it because these kinds of comments contribute to the rape culture that affects all women in India (and the rest of the world) in one way or the other.” In an elaborate post, Aaliyah also exposed the hypocrisy of people and said that they are the same people who pretend to have a moral high ground otherwise. “We seem to be a country that will hold candle marches for a woman after she’s been sexually assaulted but won’t protect a woman while she is alive. And the truth is women in India grow up being sexualized their whole lives.”

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Aaliyah also revealed being sexually assaulted as a minor by a middle-aged man. “I have grown up with these kinds of comments to be a point where it culminated in me being sexually assaulted as a minor by a middle-aged man. The double standard is that many of the people who have harassed me, along with many other women, are hypocrites. They love to pretend that they are on a moral high ground but in reality, they are the ones promoting the rape culture that exists.”

Aaliyah Kashyap also stressed that nothing a woman does is an invitation. “They are the same men that are fine with following me and consuming the content I post, yet chose to harass me. I f you truly disagree with what I post, you are free to unfollow me. Nothing I do or post is an invitation for sexual assault. Nothing any woman does, ever can be. This is my body, my life, and I choose what I want to do with it.”

Filmmaker Anurag is yet to respond to this. This is not the first time a Starkid is subjected to mental harassment on social media.

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