‘Don’t Stay late’, ‘come home as soon as the sun sets’ these statements are often heard by girls.
Parents restrict their daughters to stay indoors after sunsets. I have also faced this from a very early age but that doesn’t apply in my brother’s case. From childhood whenever I used to step out of the house alone my family members start saying ‘take bhaiya or someone with you’ and it is continuing till today.It used to annoy me a lot. One day I asked my mother ‘why you don’t restrict bhaiya to stay indoors after evening?’

My mother replied with helplessness in her eyes ‘beta because this world is not simple, it is full of evil people,we don’t allow it does not mean we don’t want you to be free rather we are concerned about your safety.We can control our actions, we can’t control the...