Everyone says Delhi unsafe for girls/women. I say Delhi is unsafe for everyone. In Delhi either people feel unsafe or people create unsafe environment. Men harm men, women harm women, men harm women and women harm men; whoever and whenever one get chance. Its not only girls/women who suffer in Delhi. Its just men harming women is the biggest visible crime at current date. Its not only Delhi, even other cities also have similar issues. But Delhites are bolder than others, so crimes are graver.
Just 2 weeks ago, I was in Mumbai. It was new year night and I was standing in queue for Pav Bhaji, with my sister and her husband. I was standing behind my sister and she was behind her husband. The queue was pretty long and we guessed it will take around 20-30 minutes to reach the table. I was keeping a feet distance from my sister so that we can talk easily. I felt someone pushing against my thigh and my back. I moved ahead. Then again. I moved ahead again. Then I felt a breast on my back. I moved ahead again. Then again. I moved to left this time because I would have hit my sister and she would have found out what was happening behind. I come as a guest in the place but the girl behind me might be a resident and others might know her. Even if someone finds out, they might think I was groping her, as I am a boy. So I kept silent. She came ahead again and I had no place to move. I moved little out of the queue and then came back after sometime. Then she came again. I could feel her against my arms. I initially thought some idiot girl is thinking that by pushing, the queue might go faster. But then I realized she was intentionally pushing against me. I stayed in the queue for half an hour and I couldn't stand normally without moving ahead, left or right to avoid her for a second. I thought when I get my Pav Bhaji I will look behind at least to see who she was, if I know her. But when I got the Pav Bhaji, I did not felt like turning to see her. And I did not see her.
2 days later, I was going in an auto. A girl was sitting between me and another boy. After sometime the girl started leaning on me, when auto jerked. I moved outward from auto. Then she came closer again. I held the auto side bar and leaned even more outward. Then I took my head out of auto finally and stayed that way for sometime. When leaning outside this way got too uncomfortable, I came back inside and leaned on the seat. She kept touching her arm against mine. In next minute, the other guy got down. But she did not move towards the other side and stayed in the middle, not even allowing me little more space. I kept myself still as I was not well since 3 weeks earlier than that. After few minutes, she got down the auto. Then when I was alone, the driver told me that the girl was trying to stick to you so much (woh ladki aapse bahut chipak rahi thi). I said shockingly that I wasn't sure of that, so I tried to keep away as possible.
If these incidences would have happened with a girl, she might have accused the boys for groping. Boys are no saints, but they are the only ones who are caught; maybe because they, sorry we, do not hesitate less to cross the line.
