After repeatedly sexually harassed and stalked, two teenage girls committed suicide in their school in India. The engineering students, Madhu and Nikita, both left suicide letters at their desks decrying the way women are seen in society.
"Every day a new man would come and chase us. They would pass lewd remarks and offer us phone numbers. The people around us would stare as if we had done something wrong," wrote 16-year-old Madhu in her six-page letter.
"I have not done anything wrong to bring shame on my family. I am ending my life because I cannot take this daily tension," 17-year-old Nikita wrote, urging police to crackdown on sexual harassment and warning of more suicides happening if action is not taken

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