Anurag Kashyap's Daughter Aaliyah Pens A Long Note About Being Harassed After Posting Pics In Lingerie

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s daughter Aaliyah Kashyap who is a popular figure on social media opened up about the harassment she’s been facing for sharing a few pictures in lingerie. The star kid penned a long note to express how the comments on her posts have been affecting her mental health to the point of her wanting to quit social media entirely.

Aaliyah who is a student in the U.S. had previously in a YouTube video also opened up about coming to terms with social media negativity. She has been getting rape threats and people have been asking her ‘rate’ for posting pictures in lingerie. Echoing the same thoughts and standing up to the trolls on social media Aaliya in her note writes, “The past few weeks have been really hard on my mental health. Ever since I posted a photo of me in lingerie, I have been getting the most vile, degrading and disgusting comments. I have never felt more frightened than I have in the past few weeks to the point where I considered deleting my instagram. I have tried to ignore the harassment and shrug it off but the truth is that we need to speak about it because these kind of comments contribute to the rape culture that affects all women in india (and the rest of the world) in one way or the other.”

Talking about Indian women being sexualized their whole lives she related the issue to her own experience and added, “I have grown up with these kinds of comments to the point where it culminated into me being sexually assaulted as a minor by a middle aged man. The double standard is that many of the people who have harassed me, along with many other woman, are hypocrites. They love to pretend that they're on a moral high ground but in reality, they are the ones promoting the rape culture that exists.”

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Aaliyah who also posted screenshots of unsavory comments on her pictures added saying, “They are the same men that are fine with following me and consuming the content I post, yet choose to harass me. If you truly disagree with what I post, then you are free to unfollow me. Nothing I do or post is an invitation for sexual assault. Nothing any woman does, ever can be. So instead of policing women how to dress or how to act, we should unteach men the predatory behaviour that has been so normalised in our society. This is my body, my life and I choose what I want to do with it.”