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The Wickedness that Spawned Wicked Women
The New Indian Express Chennai
|September 14, 2025
No thanks to Elon Musk, in all the time wasted on checking my Twitter (or whatever the tech bros are calling it now) feed, there is not a peep from the people I choose to follow even if I make it a belaboured point to click on 'Following' not 'For You'. Instead, I am bombarded with state/corporate/pharma-sponsored trolls and bots who are out to scam me, sell me something I don't need, or simply ruin my day. However, the most insidious posts and videos on my timeline are about badly behaved and dangerous women.
Overzealous keepers of our nation's culture and traditions, usually guilty of groping women and children, when not trashing the streets, getting drunk and roughing up 'beef eaters' and lovers, have made it their life's mission to chronicle the misdeeds of random viragos. These depict harridanism, harpyism and harlotry in harrowing detail. For those who have lent their dictionary and thesaurus to Shashi Tharoor and haven't gotten it back, allow me to clarify...
This story is from the September 14, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Chennai.
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