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According to me, there doesn’t need to be any cultural differences. Like, I should go to anybody and explain my problem to anybody. That doesn’t mean – “Okay, I am Indian, so I need an…

How we have been brought up is entirely different and we won’t be comfortable sharing it to any other people other than our culture. I don’t know, it’ll all depend on the individual though. I…

It [sexual assault] is a kind of a thing where you are much free to speak about it either to your mom or your sister, but not really to the entire family, you know what…

If a person brings up disclosing a certain incident and [doesn’t want] the investigation, even if the person who discloses it wants it or not, it has to be investigated. That’s what I think. Because…

The university should take on-the-spot action. There was […] an incident here which happened four months back. The [unclear] rumoring around. […]. There wasn’t any strict action taken, or any measures taken against him. But…

Participant 1: I would expect the counsellor to be empathetic, just like I said earlier too – be able to connect and not judge at all. ‘Cause, when you are asking questions that may be…

Participant 1: Personally, I think it’s [the policy is] a very important piece of information to have. […] I mean, right now, given the fact that we are talking about university students, there are some…

Actually, I did Psychology in nursing. I mean that was 20 years ago, but it’s – every women feels the same. We may physically have different cultural backgrounds, but when it comes to sexual harassment,…

I think that if the men [were] here, maybe the men would want to hear how I don’t want to be treated. Like one of the participants said, um, some people don’t know that its…

[If a friend confided in me that they were sexually assaulted], I will be happy that someone trusts me to confide in me something very important and private, so I would be careful. And what…

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