

The words, written in Devanagari, said: “ Sonam Gupta bewafa hai.” Sonam Gupta is unfaithful. “I am against the victimisation of any woman.”Īt the beginning of 2016, the images of a few currency notes had gone viral on social media, because of the plaintive, yet sullen words, written on the notes in blue ballpoint ink. “Of course I stand with Sonam Gupta, whoever and wherever she is,” said Aastha Kapoor, a lawyer. Lawyers, students, photographers, engineers – the millennials had never met the woman, yet they felt passionately about the clarion call from a Facebook page in support of Sonam Gupta. Last Friday, while the country reeled from a cash crunch, a group of 60 millennials gathered at a café on Hudson Lane in North Delhi to protect the privacy of a woman.

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