Actress Kriti Sanon used Daughter’s Day to raise concerns over women’s safety, highlighting the fears and precautions that many women face in their daily lives.
Taking to Instagram on Sunday, Kriti shared a heartfelt post describing scenarios such as women being afraid to walk home alone at night, sharing their live location and informing loved ones when they reach their destination.
“This Daughter’s Day, imagine your daughter calling you saying, ‘I think I’m being followed by some men.’ Imagine her walking home alone at night, constantly looking over her shoulder. Imagine her phone dying before she reaches home. Now let that sink in,” Kriti wrote.
The ‘Cocktail 2’ actress said women have been forced to make safety precautions part of their everyday lives, including carrying pepper spray, booking cabs instead of walking and calling someone simply to feel safer.
She said the day a woman can walk home alone at night, sit in a park after dark, wear what she wants or use public transport without fear of assault should be the day society truly celebrates Daughter’s Day.
“To every daughter who has ever called home and said, ‘I’ve reached.’ May you one day live in a world where you don’t have to,” Kriti wrote.
“That is the world our daughters deserve! And that is the world we owe them!” she added.
Kriti’s post comes amid public concern over women’s safety following the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old girl at Aastha Kunj Park in Delhi’s Kalkaji. Students, including those from Delhi University colleges, have held protests and marches demanding safer public spaces for women.
