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Zinta hits at ‘Barbarian’ eve teasers on her BBC column
In her second column for bbcnews.com leading Bollywood star Priety Zinta has hit out at 'eve teasing'. Detailing her own experiences of sexual harassment she wonders why women in Indian are still not safe to walk the streets of their own cities.
And she asks why more isn't being done to protect them from the 'everyday villians' who sometimes act like 'barbarians'.
In her column on bbcnews.com/southasia, Zinta has opined on how it feels like to be a women in India. Zinta said, "I don't feel safe on the streets, neither do a lot of women in India. It is because of a phenomenon we in India call 'eve teasing'. It sounds rather biblical and innocent but 'eve teasing' could range from catcalls to sexual assault of women."
Zinta has also spoken about her theory around dealing with eveteasing. "In life I have a "one tight slap" theory. It means if anyone makes me uncomfortable or treats me like a piece of meat then they get a dose of my theory."
About the role played by the Indian media and cinema, Zinta says, "For one,I think it has to do with a sex explosion in our media. There's too much of smut on prime time television. It's all about men imitating all the dangerously sexist images of women that our media spits out day and night. I daresay that some of today's cinema is also to blame."
Zinta joined the BBC as a columnist in March this year.
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
