Bollywood actress Swara Bhaskar has written an open letter to a stalker who has hounded her since the day she was born – sexism. And she wants the world to hear what she has to say. The actress, who recently attended the India Today Woman Summit, read the letter out loud and spoke about how her entire life has been informed by sexism and misogyny. With a tinge of sardonic humour, Swara talks about how right from infancy boys and girls are raised differently. She notes that when she was born, the first question her grandmother had asked her father upon finding out that the baby was a girl was whether she was “fair or dark”. Girls are expected to be nice, dutiful, polite, responsible (responsible towards others’ feelings), obedient, respectful, strong, sacrificing and forbearing but boys aren’t held against the same standards, she says in the letter.

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