I'll be 39 in exactly ten days. I'm a mother of two daughters-21 and 15. I have all the privileges that you can count-caste, class, religion, skin colour, education, everything. My LinkedIn profile is for everyone to see and assess my professional standing. I have been writing books, book chapters, journal papers, issue briefs, policy papers, media commentaries, poetry, and even extended social media posts on gender equity, violence against women, women's health, etc, for the past 18 years.

Yet, I'm utterly helpless, and I don't know when this will stop. The screenshots are self-explanatory.

Predictably, this sexual harassment started innocuously with a LinkedIn connection request from a man named Tulsi Kumar and my polite response to a "thank you for adding me" message in May 2024. Then came a barrage of unsolicited DMs on LinkedIn, ostensibly for professional work. I ignored it all. (Us women, we get by with ignoring a lot.)

And on the morning of 10 September, I woke up to the same old sexually charged bullshit. This man, who is going by, also found my Instagram earlier yesterday and left likes and comments there. I've had a policy of keeping my social accounts open because that's who I am as a person-transparency, etc.

The screenshots clearly reveal that this behaviour was entirely unprovoked, far from........

© NDTV