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I was sexually abused as a child: Anoushka
by doofus_maximus Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:26 pm
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/i-was-sexually-abused-as-a-child-anoushka/article4412123.ece
I was sexually abused as a child: Anoushka
HASAN SUROOR
Revealing the scale of violence against women that goes on behind closed doors even in the most privileged homes, Anoushka Shankar, composer and daughter of the late sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, has said how as a child she suffered “sexual and emotional abuse” in silence for several years at the hands of a man her parents “trusted implicitly.”
Even now, years later, she is often “afraid to walk alone at night, afraid to answer a man who asks for the time,” Ms. Shankar said in a video recorded at her London home in support of the global “One Billion Rising” campaign for an end to violence against women.
“As a woman, I find I am frequently living in fear. Afraid to walk alone at night, afraid to answer a man who asks for the time…’’ she said.
“Growing up, like most women I know, I suffered various forms of groping, touching, verbal abuse and other things I didn’t know how to deal with, I didn’t know I could change,” the 31-year-old sitarist said.
Campaigners said the revelation confirmed how women silently suffered abuse because the perpetrator was a family member or friend.
Ms. Shankar said that in the wake of the brutal gang rape of the 23-year-old Delhi student time had come to declare “enough is enough”.
Urging people to rise up, she said: “I am rising for (the Delhi rape victim) and women like her. I am rising with the amazing women of my country. I am rising for the child in me, who I don’t think will ever forgive and recover from what happened to her. So, join me, let’s rise, let’s dance. Dance has the power to heal, to transform. So let’s transform ourselves and this world. Let’s rise together,” she said.
The One Billion Rising movement was started by the American playwright and feminist Eve Ensler, who described it as the biggest global action in the history of mankind to demand an end to violence against women.
I was sexually abused as a child: Anoushka
HASAN SUROOR
Revealing the scale of violence against women that goes on behind closed doors even in the most privileged homes, Anoushka Shankar, composer and daughter of the late sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, has said how as a child she suffered “sexual and emotional abuse” in silence for several years at the hands of a man her parents “trusted implicitly.”
Even now, years later, she is often “afraid to walk alone at night, afraid to answer a man who asks for the time,” Ms. Shankar said in a video recorded at her London home in support of the global “One Billion Rising” campaign for an end to violence against women.
“As a woman, I find I am frequently living in fear. Afraid to walk alone at night, afraid to answer a man who asks for the time…’’ she said.
“Growing up, like most women I know, I suffered various forms of groping, touching, verbal abuse and other things I didn’t know how to deal with, I didn’t know I could change,” the 31-year-old sitarist said.
Campaigners said the revelation confirmed how women silently suffered abuse because the perpetrator was a family member or friend.
Ms. Shankar said that in the wake of the brutal gang rape of the 23-year-old Delhi student time had come to declare “enough is enough”.
Urging people to rise up, she said: “I am rising for (the Delhi rape victim) and women like her. I am rising with the amazing women of my country. I am rising for the child in me, who I don’t think will ever forgive and recover from what happened to her. So, join me, let’s rise, let’s dance. Dance has the power to heal, to transform. So let’s transform ourselves and this world. Let’s rise together,” she said.
The One Billion Rising movement was started by the American playwright and feminist Eve Ensler, who described it as the biggest global action in the history of mankind to demand an end to violence against women.
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Re: I was sexually abused as a child: Anoushka
by doofus_maximus Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:53 pm
who do you think is the commenter? Sounds like one of the Sucher.
t has become a fashion nowadays to talk about the dark past. We adore anoushka for her muscial talent and not necessarily about her shady past. Every human being has a darker side and it would be better not to wash the dirty linen in public.
As to Mr David's comments lamenting about women in India, may we remind him about the inglorious french gentleman who was reported to have molested(I don't want to use the ugly word)his little child.
At least in India, women continue to occupy high offices and have woken up long back to fight for equal status in power, wealth and education. It is common knowledge that women in many European countries do not even step out of their family circle.
Let us not generalise such aberrations in a billion plus country and categorise the whole nation as treating women as slaves.
The media should show some restraint in covering such cases.Popular TV channels have been dwelling on this one issue, viz. rape for the past two months, day in and day out.
from: P.G.RAVIKUMAR
Posted on: Feb 14, 2013 at 14:08 IST
t has become a fashion nowadays to talk about the dark past. We adore anoushka for her muscial talent and not necessarily about her shady past. Every human being has a darker side and it would be better not to wash the dirty linen in public.
As to Mr David's comments lamenting about women in India, may we remind him about the inglorious french gentleman who was reported to have molested(I don't want to use the ugly word)his little child.
At least in India, women continue to occupy high offices and have woken up long back to fight for equal status in power, wealth and education. It is common knowledge that women in many European countries do not even step out of their family circle.
Let us not generalise such aberrations in a billion plus country and categorise the whole nation as treating women as slaves.
The media should show some restraint in covering such cases.Popular TV channels have been dwelling on this one issue, viz. rape for the past two months, day in and day out.
from: P.G.RAVIKUMAR
Posted on: Feb 14, 2013 at 14:08 IST
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Re: I was sexually abused as a child: Anoushka
by Hellsangel Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:55 pm
doofus_maximus wrote:who do you think is the commenter? Sounds like one of the Sucher.
t has become a fashion nowadays to talk about the dark past. We adore anoushka for her muscial talent and not necessarily about her shady past. Every human being has a darker side and it would be better not to wash the dirty linen in public.
As to Mr David's comments lamenting about women in India, may we remind him about the inglorious french gentleman who was reported to have molested(I don't want to use the ugly word)his little child.
At least in India, women continue to occupy high offices and have woken up long back to fight for equal status in power, wealth and education. It is common knowledge that women in many European countries do not even step out of their family circle.
Let us not generalise such aberrations in a billion plus country and categorise the whole nation as treating women as slaves.
The media should show some restraint in covering such cases.Popular TV channels have been dwelling on this one issue, viz. rape for the past two months, day in and day out.
from: P.G.RAVIKUMAR
Posted on: Feb 14, 2013 at 14:08 IST
Sounds like a wussy Iyer boy from Ward 67.
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Re: I was sexually abused as a child: Anoushka
by Idéfix Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:41 pm
Saamiyaar made a similar comment yesterday when someone posted this story.
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Re: I was sexually abused as a child: Anoushka
by Rekz Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:31 pm
Blame her parents...what were they doing...busy playing sitar...neglecting the kid back home...
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