After the #MeToo campaign that swept social media pages globally, it is time for Indians to hang up one of our own gropers and molesters on the crosses erected on dangerous silences.
Well, that is what some women in Pune are doing. After celebrity confessions that broke the internet and flooded social homes, now Twitter is awash with a new movement called #byespirits, started by a young writer Sheena Dabholkar.
The young lady who was reportedly body shamed and humiliated at High Spirits, a high-end Pune dance club and bar, started writing on her page about how the cafe owner, Khodu Irani, is everything an undesirable man cane be: a chauvinist, groper, molester, body-shamer, abusive employer and an aggressive bully.
The man, known to be extremely influential in the political and elite sections of upscale Pune, has been accused of sexual misconduct by a barrage of women, all of whom gave testimonies of unwelcome advances and embarrassing sexual contacts in the public.
Irani was busy holding his annual Diwali party even as women came out in scores to narrate how Irani's behaviour was offensive and any reaction to it were shamed and silenced.
High Spirits, despite its vicious atmosphere, managed to stay at the pinnacle of Pune's social life and their #HighHomies community was a cult.
According to reports, the cafe used to give away awards for 'best tits and ass,' till recently.
Several tweets flooding socials have mentioned how Irani unabashedly groped women dancing on the stages or spoke in unconcealed terms about their body, in the most vile and disgusting terms.
Now, chat threads with searing misconduct have surfaced and twitteratti is actively sharing them.
At the same time, it was also found that a young man who posted asking if High Spirits offered experiences where he could be groped by a group of women, got a slap right across his face from the most unexpected quarters - his mother.
His mother, who wrote on Facebook that 'she gave up on a career in political science for a kitchen, would respond to the young man's unwelcome desire by denying him food and disagreeing with him, adding that she is writing this to him on Facebook because that is where his ideological deliberations seem to take place.
But as in every online freedom fight, here too the overzealous netizens have flooded the page of the man and his mother, reported to be a cancer patient, with trolls and abuses forcing them to quit the network.
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