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How I became a feminist? To be honest I used to be misogynistically driven until this one incident took place. If you remember by chance the Bollywood actress Zaira Wasim who worked in ‘Dangal’, ‘Secret Superstar’ and ‘The Sky Is Pink’. This actress back in 2017(seems like a long time) made a video where she showed how she was molested by a passenger sitting behind her. This man recently got sentenced for 3 years of jail. The video went viral and I had the opinion that why did she think it was important to tell everyone, could she not just keep it to herself. I was very naive about such cases. I didn’t know about Nirbhaya neither did I know about the acid attacks. I wouldn’t have had an idea of any of this if after that incident if someone wouldn’t have had an eye-opening talk with me. I had the point of view that there was no need for her to come out in the open and tell people her problem. I thought it would be embarrassing but I didn’t know how wrong it was not to tell...