This happened today around 6:30 PM and I’m still shaken. Like mujhe samajh nhi aara heat of the moment what happened and how to process it. I was coming back from Esplanade Mall and boarded a Route 29 bus from Rasulgarh towards Satsang Vihar. The bus was extremely crowded, but what happened was NOT just because of the crowd. A man standing next to me deliberately kept pressing himself against me in a sexual way. I could clearly feel it and it was not accidental literally i could feel his dihh and he was trying to rub it. I told him to move, and he dismissed it saying there’s too much crowd. So I moved forward myself to get away. Even after that, he kept adjusting himself to stay close to me. Then he tried to start a casual conversation, asking where I was going, which made it even more disturbing. Right before I got down at my stop, I felt him touch me inappropriately. I froze and didn’t create a scene, I just got off the bus.
Now I feel angry, unsafe, and honestly disgusted. I keep thinking about it and wondering if I should have shouted or done something more. But in that moment, I just couldn’t react.
This wasn’t an “accident” or “because of the crowd.” It was deliberate.
Has anyone else gone through this? How do you deal with it mentally? And what can I actually do if this happens again in a crowded bus?