India, March 16 -- I was sexually harassed as a teenager in my apartment complex while playing Holi, and the incident left me so scarred, I never played Holi again. When I shared the story of my harassment on social media, several things happened.

People known and unknown reached out and shared similar stories of harassment. Most were stories of harassment in a familiar setting, and, like me, most of them blamed themselves for a long time. My story was no longer my story, it was the representative story of many others, and I am glad I could give them a voice.

Then the troll army got activated and I was attacked by people of all ages and political ideologies. The hundreds of responses fell into a few categories-

'Don't compare yourself ...