Go pray but please don’t spray


THIS Thaipusam from Wednesday until today, women in sarees are going to feel a chill down their backs if they see anyone brandishing a can of spray paint.

The online threat that “inappropriately dressed” women will be assaulted with spray paint during Thaipusam has left us Indian women feeling violated and humiliated.

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