India, Sept. 29 -- A South Asian woman in London has said she was racially abused by a group of schoolchildren while travelling on a train earlier this month. Sophia Choudry, a 47-year-old entrepreneur, shared her ordeal in a LinkedIn post, describing how four children hurled racist slurs at her during her journey from Paddington to Maidenhead on September 7.

"I never thought I would hear this word again," she wrote. "I was on my own, sitting in a group of four seats, headphones in, scrolling on my phone. Opposite me were four children. A few minutes into the journey, I heard shouting. they were shouting the word 'p***' over and over again. I couldn't believe it. The laughter, the brazenness. I looked around to see if anyone else was as ...