Students of Maitreyi College in Delhi spoke to Brut about the safety measures they take when they step out of their house and what all tools do they carry with themselves for their safety.
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00:00I literally can't travel alone at night.
00:02I inform my parents.
00:04Share your number plates if you're travelling by cab.
00:07I usually carry a pepper spray.
00:09So I start on a calling like I am in a call.
00:11I don't have to take many safety measures because of my looks.
00:15If I go to the metro, I'll go in a women's coach.
00:17I think our society failed.
00:18It's all about the man.
00:20If they can't keep it in their pants,
00:21then they should not be allowed outside after 8pm.
00:24According to the 2022 Annual Report of the National Crime Records Bureau,
00:29above 31,000 rape cases were registered across the country
00:33with an average of 90 cases per day.
00:36So we're at Bhrut,
00:37sort of stepping out on the streets of Delhi
00:40and asking some young women
00:42as to what measures do they take for their safety.
00:45Obviously, when I go out, I send my friends to live locations.
00:49When we're in a cab, or we take an auto from somewhere,
00:51we discuss things like,
00:53my brother is coming to pick me up,
00:54my brother is behind me,
00:55my brother is coming, my father is coming,
00:56my father is behind me,
00:58they're coming to pick me up from behind
01:00so that they feel that there's a male with them.
01:02Sharing your location with your family or friends,
01:07and sharing number plates if you're travelling in a cab,
01:11and keeping pepper spray in your bag.
01:14Whenever I'm in any surrounding where men are more,
01:18I usually carry a pepper spray in my jeans.
01:22And whenever there are less people, less crowd,
01:27I usually carry a key, you know, a room key,
01:31in my hand so that if anything happens,
01:34I can just punch them.
01:35They don't understand that I'm a girl.
01:37Because my entire dress-up is like a boy's.
01:39So I get an advantage in this.
01:41If I had been like other girls,
01:43I wouldn't have been able to take advantage of it.
01:45It's the same with me.
01:46I feel unsafe like them.
01:48If I go to the metro, I'll go in a women's coach
01:50because we don't know, there's so much crowd,
01:52who's here, what are their intentions for us.
01:55That guy will say that it happened by mistake.
01:57And I don't know what his intention is.
01:59When I'm alone, I take to share my location with my friends.
02:05Or whenever I'm thinking that the guy is not...
02:08You feel it, that the person is looking at you and something.
02:11So I start on a calling, like I am in a call,
02:14so it makes me more comfortable.
02:16You pretend to be on a call?
02:17Yeah, I pretend it.
02:18Does what time of the day you stepping out
02:20play an important role in your sex scene?
02:23Exactly, yeah, it does.
02:24Sure, for sure.
02:25I have been told that I should not get out of my PG
02:29or anywhere after 6.30 or so.
02:33I personally will try not to go out
02:36because if something goes wrong with me,
02:37no one will tolerate it.
02:39So, it doesn't matter if it's day or night,
02:41the one who has to do wrong,
02:43the one whose thinking is wrong,
02:44they won't look at the day.
02:45They won't look at the time,
02:46nor will they look at the person in front of them,
02:47that he's a kid, he's older, he's older than them.
02:50Near the foot-rover bridge,
02:52a cab driver opened the door of his cab
02:55and was masturbating in front of all the girls.
02:57And that too, during the day.
02:58The morning times or the time before 8 o'clock,
03:02it's quite safer than the rest of,
03:04like after the 8 o'clock.
03:06Maybe I know I sound very narrow-minded or something,
03:10but I know it's true.
03:12Late nights are completely no, not safe.
03:16And my parents don't allow me.
03:22I don't know why they don't allow me to go to bed at 8 o'clock.
03:25I don't know why they don't allow me to go to bed at 8 o'clock.
03:27I don't know why they don't allow me to go to bed at 8 o'clock.
03:29I don't know why they don't allow me to go to bed at 8 o'clock.
03:31I don't know why they don't allow me to go to bed at 8 o'clock.
03:33I don't know why they don't allow me to go to bed at 8 o'clock.
03:35I don't know why they don't allow me to go to bed at 8 o'clock.
03:37I don't know why they don't allow me to go to bed at 8 o'clock.
03:39I don't know why they don't allow me to go to bed at 8 o'clock.
03:41I don't know why they don't allow me to go to bed at 8 o'clock.