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Hyderabad Rape Case: We Fixed The Police’s Advisory To Women

The Hyderabad Police advisory reads uncannily like what mothers tell daughters a dozen times every day before they step out of their homes. Only, they are not our mothers, whose only resource to keep us ‘safe’ is their ability to relentlessly worry and let us know they are relentlessly worrying.

In fact, one can say, the police — the usually frustrating nature of their interaction with civilians, their apathy and their unavailability — is one of the primary reasons we worry about our safety. So even if well-meaning, the Hyderabad Police advisory shows that they are simply taking the easy way out — asking women to live in terror every day. Which, incidentally, we do already.

So we fixed the Hyderabad Police’s ‘advisory’ to suggest what, as women, we’d rather have the police tell us.