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MARD {Men Against Rape & Discrimination }
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- Created: Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:00
- Written by Deesh Sekhon
Bollywood actor-director Farhan Akhtar is promoting a campaign called MARD - Men Against Rape and Discrimination - to get Indian men to respect women at a time when the country is outraged over cases of brutal violence against women.
Pallavi Purkayastha, 25, a young lawyer with a successful career ahead of her, was murdered in her flat in August last year after a man tried to rape her. (BBC)
"That was one of the reasons why I had to get involved. Why I had to do something. We all wonder what can we do to stop this, but nobody is telling us how we can do it." --Farhan Akhtar
