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7:14 pm - 01/15/2013

Rape Could Happen to Me in India: Freida Pinto



In an Interview to CNN's Erin Burnett,Freida Pinto talks about Growing Number of Rape Cases in India




Last week when asked about this Incident Top Chef host Padma lakshmi said that ,"I was saddened and I was sickened. I literally felt nauseous. I'm from India and while it (the attack) didn't surprise me, it disgusted me... And it reminded me, it brought back to me all of those feelings of when I was walking in Delhi. "

"I used to ride the bus in India to school and I hated it. I hated going on a crowded bus because they would always pinch you or grab you and, you know, when you're a teenager... I went to school (for) some years in India and it was terrible...

"There is no actual word for rape. The closest word [in Hindi, India's predominant language] is I guess lootna, which kind of means to take someone's honour away. But to say that because a woman has been violated she no longer has her chastity or her honour is missing the point. Therein lies the problem."





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comalies 15th-Jan-2013 02:23 pm (UTC)
Seriously, what the hell?
comalies 15th-Jan-2013 03:27 pm (UTC)
...oh.
ialmrnt5 15th-Jan-2013 03:48 pm (UTC)
ugh... this is around the time i really realized most of the regular commenters on ONTD are assholes/completely hypocritical
ectypes 15th-Jan-2013 03:59 pm (UTC)
yep
sevenbeat 15th-Jan-2013 03:51 pm (UTC)
I'm glad I stayed far away from that post
chantemarissa 15th-Jan-2013 04:18 pm (UTC)
me too
yoshiyuki_ly 15th-Jan-2013 05:14 pm (UTC)
smh at the first comment. I remember this post.
wicky_wicky 15th-Jan-2013 07:09 pm (UTC)
thats fucked up but to be fair a lot of those ppl saying that shit are ppl whose comments are fucked up on the regular
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