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Stalking, groping, catcalling — these are just some of the many ways in which women are made to feel unsafe. Traversing down dark and empty streets must entail keeping an eye out for any sort of trouble, or keeping your loved ones constantly updated through texts and calls. So even a 5-minute walk can be exhausting and harrowing.
Like every woman in the country, Kalpana Vishwanath was no stranger to this. “When I was working on United Nations projects, we did a safety audit based on several parameters to ascertain how safe women felt in public spaces. That’s when I realised public safety was a critical issue, because while there were laws about violence at home and sexual harassment at the workplace, streets as a site of violence had not been really addressed,” she tells The Better India.
The gap here was that people were not equipped with adequate data regarding the state of these streets. To work around this, Kalpana…