Published : 28 Sep 2026, 11:40 AM
Updated : 28 Sep 2026, 11:40 AM
“Imagine your daughter calling you saying, ‘I think I’m being followed by some men.’ Imagine her walking home alone at night, constantly looking over her shoulder. Imagine her phone dying before she reaches home.”
Indian actor Kriti Sanon used those words in a Daughter’s Day post highlighting the everyday fears and precautions many women live with, NDTV reports.
Sharing her thoughts on social media, Kriti asked people to imagine a daughter calling home because she feels she is being followed, walking alone at night or finding herself without a working phone before reaching home.
She also pointed to the precautions women often build into their daily routines -- sharing live locations with family or friends, carrying pepper spray, booking a cab instead of walking and staying on a phone call while travelling.
According to Kriti, such measures have become so routine that they are often treated as a normal part of being a woman.
“The day a daughter can walk home alone at night, sit in a park after dark, wear whatever the hell she wants, take public transport without fear, or simply exist in a public space without calculating the risk of being assaulted... That is the day we should celebrate Daughter’s Day,” she wrote.
Kriti also reflected on a phrase familiar to many families — a daughter calling home to say she has arrived safely.
“To every daughter who has ever called home and said, ‘I’ve reached’. May you one day live in a world where you don’t have to... That is the world our daughters deserve! And that is the world we owe them!” she concluded.
Her post comes amid continuing conversations about women’s safety and the freedom to move through public spaces without fear.
