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This is not fair – (II)
Seven Sisters Post | Banamallika Choudhury | July 19:
Nanao, a 34-year-old woman from Manipur who has been living in Guwahati for nine years shares: “Although I have lived in this city for a long time, I never feel safe here on the streets. Because of my ‘chinky’ looks people always stare or pass comments when I am in any public space. Even the police are biased towards people from the rest of the NR region who look ‘chinky’.
There have been more than once instance when me and my husband (boyfriend for a long time then) were taken to police station while returning home at night. Each time they thought that I was a prostitute. For the Assamese people every ‘chinky’ looking girl is a prostitute and can be humiliated or molested any time. I have not been able to call this city home even after so many years and after being married here.” The experience is not very different for Assamese women either.
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