Varnika Kundu: 'My fight is to make women fearless'

August 11, 2017 15:22

"I live in a privileged city, I have a privileged life, I was in a car. If it can happen here, then there is literally no hope for women in rural India or smaller cities. If more women think we can help ourselves, we can survive, and men would be a lot more hesitant to try something like this."

Varnika Kundu, the young woman, who is spearheading a movement to embolden women to own the streets, speaks on the attempted abduction and the life thereafter, in an interview with Rediff.com. Do read.

Pic: Deejay Varnika Kundu at work. Image kind courtesy: Varnika Kundu

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