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<b>Shekhar Gupta: </b>Anyone here has been raped and likes sex?

And smokes, drinks and has condoms in her room? Notion that young Indians leading liberated lives are asking for trouble needs revisiting

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Illustration by Binay Sinha

Shekhar Gupta
Why did a young woman go to watch a late-night movie with her boyfriend, wearing tight jeans and T-shirt? Does it not suggest a promiscuous relationship? Why did she not keep her parents and college informed, particularly when her daddy isn’t rich enough to give her the safety of a chauffeur-driven car?

And why were she and her boyfriend hanging around a lonely Delhi road at night, and why did they cadge a ride in an empty bus on an irregular run with six lumpen, hormone-laden young men in it?

What kind of reckless, adventurous, and irresponsible behaviour was this?
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