Oops! Malaika Arora Khan’s Instagram post about Bengaluru molestation wasn’t written by her

Two days back, Malaika Arora Khan‘s Instagram update caught many of our eyes. The horrible incident of mass molestation on New Year’s eve in Bengaluru was still paining us; and that’s when Malaika came up with a powerful piece. Written from the perspective of a woman who symbolizes thousands of women helpless in the hands of patriarchy, the post immediately went viral on the internet. Quite naturally, we were assuming it was penned down by the lady herself.

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So, I went out with my girlfriends to party on the crowded streets of a Metropolitan city, they came out in large numbers and molested us…… But my safety is my responsibility so… The next time I went to a discotheque, it was enclosed and had bouncers, they came into the place and beat us up and ripped our clothes off…….But my safety is my responsibility so…. I went to a movie with a Male friend for company, they pushed me into a bus and shoved an iron rod inside my privates…….But my safety is my responsibility, so…… I went to my college, fully clad in a “decent” salwaar kameez, they caught me around a corner and squeezed my bum……But my safety is my responsibility, so…… I decided to stay at home in the comfort of my own house, they broke down the door, tied me up and videotaped the things they made me do with them…….But my safety is my responsibility, so…… I went back to live with my family feeling safe and secure with them, they were my uncles but they didn’t think of me as their niece when they made me take off my clothes and have their way with me…….But my safety is my responsibility, so……. These days I sit in the bathroom, locked tight, not coming out at all. They stand on the terrace opposite to it peeking in through the bathroom window, but I don’t take a bath…….because my safety is my responsibility……. Now, they have me exactly where they have always wanted me, my spirit broken, my ability to fight back gone, my will to do something destroyed…..at their mercy…..still stuck in the bathroom…..dreading the time when the knocking starts on the door as they come to get me here too. I am that Indian Woman who can excel at sports, win medals for the Country, join the Army, become a CEO, go to the outer space and be the talk of the world…..only if I can come out of this bathroom……But my safety is my responsibility, so…. Disclaimer: Girls wearing short clothes and drinking and partying are copying the Western culture.Boys who molest them r copying the Indian culture???

A photo posted by Malaika Arora Khan (@malaikaarorakhanofficial) on Jan 5, 2017 at 1:22am PST

However, that’s not really the case. A Facebook user called Darshan Mondkar, on January 3, posted the piece on Facebook.

It undoubtedly is a great piece and neither did Malaika anywhere mention that it was self-written. However, she could have just given credits to the real author!

Never mind. hats off to the writer for this brilliant one!

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Ranjini Maitra

Journalist. Writer. Reader. Enthu cutlet. Mood-swing machine. Day dreamer. Sandwiched between ‘live life fully’ and ‘lose some weight’. Mantra of life: Love and love more.