In her second column for bbcnews.com leading Bollywood star Priety Zinta has hit out at 'eve teasing'. Detailing her own experiences of sexual harassment she wonders why women in Indian are still not safe to walk the streets of their own cities.
And she asks why more isn't being done to protect them from the 'everyday villians' who sometimes act like 'barbarians'.

In her column on bbcnews.com/southasia, Zinta has opined on how it feels like to be a women in India. Zinta said, "I don't feel safe on the streets, neither do a lot of women in India. It is because of a phenomenon we in India call 'eve teasing'. It sounds rather biblical and innocent but 'eve teasing' could range from catcalls to sexual assault of women."

Zinta has also spoken about her theory around dealing with eveteasing. "In life I have a "one tight slap" theory. It means if anyone makes me uncomfortable or treats me like a piece of meat then they get a dose of my theory."

About the role played by the Indian media and cinema, Zinta says, "For one,I think it has to do with a sex explosion in our media. There's too much of smut on prime time television. It's all about men imitating all the dangerously sexist images of women that our media spits out day and night. I daresay that some of today's cinema is also to blame."

Zinta joined the BBC as a columnist in March this year.