‘No Woman Wants to be India’s Daughter’: Hyd Horror Sparks Outrage

“No one... wants to be India’s daughters,” writes actor Saloni Chopra in an Instagram post that has now gone viral.

‘No woman wants to be India’s f***ing daughter .’

That’s the war cry pulsing through social media timelines post the suspected rape and murder of a 26-year-old vet who was found at an underpass near Hyderabad on 28 November. She was on her way home, the previous evening, when two men waylaid her after deflating her bike’s tyre.

While four suspects have been arrested, a national outrage – across social media platforms – continues to question women’s safety in India. From Nirbhaya to this, have we made any headway at all, asks social media in unison.

‘If I'm Not Safe in My Homeland, Where Will I be Safe then?’

5 major rape cases in 2 weeks, and several others that are unheard of. Where did we go wrong? Why are our daughters and sisters unsafe? India, answer me! #PriyankaReddyMurder #Nirbhaya #Roja #RIPPriyankaReddy #RIPHumanity #

— Meera S Nath (@MeeraSNath) November 30, 2019

Dear @narendramodi ji,
A humble request from one of India's daughters. Please do something. This is not what India should be known for. We need you to change this. If I'm not safe in my homeland, where will I be safe then? #Nirbhaya #PriyankaReddy #Roja

— Meera S Nath (@MeeraSNath) November 30, 2019

‘Sorry... No Other Better Way to Depict India’

I don't know who this artist is but sorry there is no other better way to depict India #HyderabadHorror pic.twitter.com/F01s4FnJQu

— Atul Khatri (@one_by_two) November 30, 2019

‘No One Wants to be India’s Daughter’

“She told her sister she was scared. Every woman in this country is scared. She wasn’t out drinking, she wasn’t making feminist statements about her t**s, she wasn’t wearing vulgar clothes, she followed all your f***ing rules and she is gone.”

Saloni Chopra, Actor

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It was Jyoti Singh, not Nirbhaya. You don’t know if she was fearless. She wasn’t fucking volunteering. Before people come up with a brave name for Priyanka Reddy’s life lost amongst the other women we have lost in the last 7 years, let me remind you, that no one - none of us, want to be India’s daughters. You wouldn’t want your daughter to be India’s daughter. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Educate the girl” people scream, cos THAT is feminism, hai na? Beti Bachao Beti Padhao... “make them Engineers & Doctors if you want equality, that’s feminism” - that’s feminism? Well your education couldn’t protect her. That god damn degree didn’t come with safety. It came with the same fucking life that women have been living for decades & centuries in this country - with no respect or dignity. Men are raised with ZERO education towards a woman, her body, her period, her humanity, her identity. Women are mothers & wives in this country, they aren’t individuals with jobs & identities. If Priyanka was a man, they would’ve robbed him & hit him and left. They wouldn’t have RAPED & BURNT HIM. Our men are deprived of sex and taught nothing about respecting the opposite sex REGARDLESS OF WHERE SHE IS AND WHAT SHE IS WEARING. We don’t want to talk about that... from the richest of families to the poorer ones, no one wants to talk about how our ‘culture & tradition’ suffocates & erases a woman’s identity & teaches men nothing about the opposite sex. We victim blame. We enable patriarchy. We slut shame & character strip the women that want to talk about a woman’s body to NORMALISE IT. So that every fucking pair of boobs & vagina doesn’t make you want to RAPE IT. It breaks my heart that the first thought I had was ‘why did they have to kill her... why couldn’t they just leave her after they raped her.’ Because you’re now lucky if you just live. Doctor Priyanka Reddy, was raped & burnt alive on her way back home yesterday at 9:30. She told her sister she was scared. Every woman in this country is scared. She wasn’t out drinking, she wasn’t making feminist statements about her tits, she wasn’t wearing vulgar clothes, she followed all your fucking rules and she is gone. #priyankareddy

A post shared by Saloni Chopra (@redheadwayfarer) on Nov 29, 2019 at 7:24am PST

‘It's Not a Compliment if this is How They're (India’s daughters) Treated’

Seriously, stop calling every raped and murdered girl India's goddamn daughter. It's not a compliment if this is how they're treated. She was a person. A citizen. Stop always seeing women as daughters, mothers, sisters, wives. FFS realize that's part of the problem.

— Samira Sood (@samirasood) November 30, 2019

@narendramodi
"NO WOMAN WANTS TO BE INDIA'S DAUGHTER". Absolutely not. This is not the society we wanted to live in. We don't want to fight each and every day and thank the god by the end of the day if we are still breathing. Nirbhaya, Asifa, Priyanka Reddy, how many more?

— Prasanna Rao (@PcyPrasanna) November 29, 2019

Nobody wants to be India’s Daughter we see what happens to the womxn who fall under that category and it’s not what we want. We want justice.

— edgar allen hoe (@kdashdollywall) November 30, 2019

Four rape cases reported in one day in India today. Four women lost their lives today because of the same crime. They were not India’s daughters. They were citizens, humans who deserved to be treated like an equal. We educated our women, when will India educate their men?

— ava (@soymadridsta) November 29, 2019

‘The Reality of Being a Woman In India Is a Scary Prospect’

The reality of being a woman in India is a scary prospect. Women are routinely abused, assaulted & killed in a society that refuses to learn & loves to pretend.

We're alone in this battle. Nothing surprises us anymore. Nothing.#HyderabadHorror #Hyderabad

— Madhuvanthi Srinivasan | مدهوونتی شرینیوسن (@MadhuvanthiS95) November 29, 2019

The rape and murder of a young Hyderabad techie is all the proof we need that this is a country still searching for its Nirbhaya moment. Makes you sick in the stomach. #HyderabadHorror

— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) November 30, 2019

The more I read on the Hyderabad case, the more insanely angry and helpless I feel.

Tonight, my thoughts and prayers with her family.

As a society, we are doomed. Filled with monsters. #HyderabadHorror

— Zeba Warsi (@Zebaism) November 29, 2019

Last few hours have been terrifying what is happening in our country? Is it becoming a free ride for rapists & murderers or worse. Situation is very shameful for not just govt but we as citizens how we are becoming as a society. Need to identify and shoot them!#HyderabadHorror

— Raghuram Rajan (@RaghuramRRajan) November 30, 2019