Amid the news of murder and rape of a Kolkata doctor that has angered the nation, Celina Jaitly who is an actress came out and said how “victim is always at fault” and remembered one bad moment when a man once showed her his “dick.”
On Saturday, she shared on her Instagram page which was about her sixth grade period.
“THE VICTIM IS ALWAYS AT FAULT : In this pic I was in 6th grade only when boys from a nearby university started to wait outside my school.They would follow the school rickshaw making catcalls all the way home everyday,” Celina wrote.
She went on to say that she pretended as if she didn’t notice them “and then few days later because of that they started throwing stones at me in the middle of the road to get my attention. Not one bystander batted an eye.”
Even her teacher shamed her as victim.
A teacher told me: It is due to the fact that I am ‘too westernized and don’t put on loose clothes or tie two braids with oil it was my fault !’”
She recalled an unsavory moment when she held herself responsible for many years after it happened to her.
“This also happens in grade 6 where a man first flashed his private parts at me while waiting for the school rickshaw in morning. For many years I blamed myself for this incident which I kept to myself running the words of the teacher again and again in my mind that it was MY FAULT! (sic).”
She went ahead to recall what happened when she reached grade 11.
“My scooty’s brake wire was cut by them since I refused recognizing those university boys who were heckling me or calling me rude names & writing lewd notes against my scooty.
“They got frightened for me and reported our teachers. My class teacher sent for me and told me ‘You come off as a FORWARD type of girl, riding a scooty and wearing jeans to extra classes with short open hair that’s why boys think you are of a loose character’ It was always my fault.
“I can still remember that day when I jumped off my scooty just to save myself on realizing that the brake wires had been cut off.”
Despite getting injured badly, she said “yet it was my fault”.
“My Scooty was damaged… I was both physically and psychologically hurt… And I was told it was MY FAULT! My retired Colonel Grandfather who fought two wars for our country in his old age had to take to escorting me back n forth to school…” Celina recounted.
“That day those impolite guys chased me even spoiling my scooty they also made jokes about my grandfather, ex-colonel. Nana looked at them and then he turned away shook his head and I could read his face as he walked away with me.”
“His disgust at the very people he laid his life on line for. It’s time to stand up and ask for our right to be protected WE ARE NOT AT FAULT ! #kolkatadoctordeath #kolkata #womensrights #celinajaitly,” she said.
