CHASE & AFTERMATH

When a young DJ took to Facebook to tell the story of how she had been chased and almost kidnapped just past midnight in Chandigarh, the responses followed a script so familiar, it was like watching an awful film rerun. ‘Why was she out so late at night?’ ‘What was she doing?’ ‘Look at her posing here with boys and then pretending to be upset about being chased’. Then the discourse changed, as women and men took to social media to stand with Varnika Kundu. Here’s a look what happened and how it escalated