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On Sunday July 24st the first Slut Walk will take place in Delhi. Hooray! Many Slut Walks have been held across the world, but never in Delhi. And we certainly need one. Not because we want to be able to wear short skirts, but because we need to help change the mindset. 

So what is a slutwalk?

The phenomena started after a police officer in Toronto made a comment at the York University that 'women should avoid dressing up like sluts in order not to be victimised'. Two months later on April 3, 2011, the city witnessed a thousand people on the streets protesting against this derogatory remark in the form of Slut Walks. The women got down on the streets wearing revealing outfits and T-shirts with the word 'slut' written on them. Soon, people in North America, Australia and Britain began organizing slut walks on their own raising their voices against the men who blamed women for being raped.

Why Delhi?

In India, and especially Delhi aka "India's rape capital", sexual harassment and rape are commonplace. In India every 26 minutes a woman is molested, every 34 minutes a rape takes place and every 43 minutes a woman is kidnapped (source: the home ministry's national crime records bureau). The brunt of this happens in Delhi with 489 rapes reported last year. 

Dates

On the 16th of July a special debate will be organized at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi from 4-7pm to talk about the issues related to sexual harassment, rape and eve teasing with experts, activists and parents. 

The actual SlutWalk will be held on 24 july. For the walk women can wear whatever they want, because the point of the walk is that it is not the clothes you wear that cause harassment. 

We love this initiative not because of the walk itself, but because of the debate it has opened. It has kicked off the kind of discussion — about personal safety, sexuality and class — that is seldom heard here. 

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Read more in this NY Times article

The Indian Young

Last year while still at Wieden + Kennedy Delhi, I and the cool Ms. Pooja Bakshi set out to find the quintessential Indian Youth. What we found and came back with instead, were 20 stories of individuals doing interesting things and influencing everyone around them. We created a documentary that weaved a story of originality, about self belief and about following your heart and never looking back.

These are 20 interviews with young Indians- not how we see them, but how they see themselves.
We will publish one interview a day, so look out for posts titled "Indian Young." Enjoy!

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