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Swara Bhasker opens up on sexual harassment by a director

Actress Swara Bhasker, a fearless woman who never shies away from speaking up her mind. While the #MeToo movement is still out there, Swara had made a shocking revelation about her personal life where she was sexually abused by a director.  But the shocking part comes here, as Swara says that it realised her six to eight years to realise what had happened to her.

Swara Bhasker sexual harassment

“It took me 6-8 years to realise when I heard someone else talk about their experience of harassment at a panel discussion like this. I was like God, what happened to me 3 years ago was actually sexual harassment at work place! I never realised it because like you said, I escaped. Because the person did not touch me and I managed to ward it off,” Swara said.

“I would just tell myself that this director is being… whatever, but that is not the full truth. The director was not being an idiot or an ass, he was being a predator,” she added.  Swara further added the impediment occur to women and what makes them abstain from taking legal course. “First of these things is completely inhospitable and hostile society and a culture that actively or sub-consciously enables predators… We should use this moment to not just talk about the one predator that got caught and got glamorized. But we should also talk about the culture that enables these predators to reach the position of power they do. So, it’s also a question of making ourselves aware of many things that go into legitimising predatory behaviour,” she added.

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