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Published 19:51 IST, September 30th 2018

EXCLUSIVE | After being targeted for speaking up, Tanushree Dutta fires an open letter. Full text here

Public figures getting away sends a very wrong message in a society that is crumbling from the inside.

Reported by: Tanushree Dutta
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Countless millions suffer persecution on top of harassment because no one speaks out and if someone does, it opens and closes like a case file, discussed, debated but never a rightful conclusion. 

This is making people uncomfortable, uneasy, agitated because the deep-seated misogynistic programming of our society has conditioned it to shove it deep in our subconscious. 

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This dialogue is bringing it out. Smear campaigns and violent outbursts are part of the same persecution machinery. It's an awareness campaign and a process to induce personal responsibility for one's own actions. Public figures getting away sends a very wrong message in a society that is crumbling from the inside.

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These are sensitive times...A sensitive, intelligent and enlightened approach is needed to look at it.

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18:59 IST, September 30th 2018