There are times when I see my female friends on the roads and in the bars at night. Brave, they are! Where I am quietly hiding inside my 3 BHK apartment with my parents, after 6 in the evening, my friends beg me to accompany them to the nearby club. Maybe something is wrong with the clothes they wear shamefully, expecting me to dress up the same. “Sorry, I can’t”, I told them. My parents would not be able to see me like that. I once saw my friend kiss another boy when she was dating her boyfriend since last 4 long months. I won’t lie; I called her a ‘slut’ in my mind and thought of never befriending such assholes. Earlier, I did not know why I never broke the shackles of my introversion. Also, I did not know why I never followed my friends to the bar. When my friend was abducted from the streets last week, my father came into my room and gently spoke, “This is the reason why we always tell you to not go out after 6. I cannot let you go out of my life.” Now, I know the reaso...