Nisha Bora Accuse Artiste Jatin Das of Sexual Harassment

Nisha Bora Accuse Artiste Jatin Das of Sexual Harassment

New Delhi: Conservationist Nisha Bora on Tuesday accused Padma Bhushan recipient artist Jatin Das of sexually harassing her at his Khidki village studio in 2004, which Das refuted as “ridiculous and vulgar”. “I visited Jatin in his studio, which was in Khidki village... The next thing I knew, he attempted to grab me. I wriggled out of his embrace, flustered. Then he did it again. This time, he managed a clumsy kiss on my lips,” Bora tweeted on Tuesday afternoon.

Bora, the co-founder of Elrhino Paper, an Assam-based organization that makes hand-made paper from rhinoceros and elephant dung, said she had met Jatin Das in 2004 at India International Centre when she was 28 and had been married for less than a year. “I recall the feeling of his beard on my skin. I pushed him away and moved away from him. At that moment he said, ‘Come on, it would be nice.’ “I worked myself into a hole believing that talking about it would make trouble... I felt that somehow I landed myself into this spot and that it was my problem to deal with. I felt guilty and ashamed,” said Bora, adding that she is younger than Das’ daughter, filmmaker-actor Nandita Das. (IANS)

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