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Mumbai for WOMEN

IS MUMBAI FOR WOMEN?  My answer : In India Mumbai is the only city FOR women. No other city can claim to be as safe as AAMCHI MUMBAI. I recently attended an   INDIBLOGGER   meet   TIMES OF INDIA'S initiative MUMBAI FOR WOMEN. It got me thinking why do I feel so?  I was neither born nor brought up in Mumbai... I am from Kolkata. 9 yrs ago I got married and I shifted to Mumbai and have been living here since then.  In Kolkata, eve-teasing was a day to day occurrence, it happened everywhere... where ever we (my friends and myself) went. Be it waiting for the metro, gates of my college ( Loreto college) Romeos waiting and mumbling. At times it was even difficult to decipher what exactly they were trying to say. Honestly, I was cool with it and at times even enjoyed it. The only things that made me  lose my cool was when they tried to touch. It had been quite a number of times. Readers must be wondering maybe I wasn't dressed properly. Well I used to wear jeans and