TWO NIGHTS OF ATTACK

TWO NIGHTS OF ATTACK

Women wearing spaghetti straps and jeans in Bangalore are being attacked and splashed with pink paint. Even as the police are taking a serious note of this distressing phenomenon, an incident of a woman who was dressed in a traditional salwar-kameez being hit by a bikeborne duo was reported on Saturday. Is our city going to the goons, is the question our women are asking. Meanwhile, adding to the spate of murders the city has witnessed of late, a couple were killed in a shoot-out, allegedly by the man’s business partner on Sunday

GAYATRI NAIR & HEMANTH KASHYAP



So you thought only ‘westernised’ women were being targeted by the growing goon brigade. Going by the recent experience of a ‘daughter of the soil’, you couldn’t be more wrong.
Sanjana, a resident of Mahalakshmi Layout and a journalist working with an English-language magazine, was attacked by two men on a motorbike while she was returning home on Saturday night. Listen to her anguished account of her very own reality check. “People say non-Kannadigas are being attacked and girls wearing sleeveless tops and jeans are being targeted. But that’s not true. I am a Kannadiga and I was wearing a salwarkameez, but I was attacked nonetheless. It can mean only one thing: single women are being targeted by hooligans.” Around 10.30 pm, while she was returning after attending a programme at Sophia High School, her two-wheeler’s tyre got punctured. “I pushed my bike till the Palace Road junction and parked it inside a commercial complex.”