Although Sumitra is trying her best to inspire other women, not everything is a bed of roses for her, especially when it comes to sexual harassment from men.

In a recent post on her Instagram, Sumitra shared how her saree-clad figure had been called "hot, sexy, a turn-on and a tease". 

She said the attire seemed to inflame a multitude of men, such as a colleague at a previous workplace who ran his finger down her saree-blouse clad back as he passed her workstation.


“Why has the garment that clothes their mothers and grandmothers and aunts and wives and daughters been turned into the drape of their filthiest desires?”, she questioned on her Instagram post.

Despite that, Sumitra continues to wear her sarees proudly to work every single day and encourages other women to do so as well.

“You should wear what you want, when you want. I don't subscribe to societal notions that if you wear a saree, you have to be traditional or conservative or old-fashioned. 

“I also don't believe that you have to act a certain was just because you wear a saree. It is a piece of clothing like any other, and at the end of the day it's your deeds that matter, not the way you dress,” she said.

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