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Outlook Magazine Calls IAS Officer Smita Sabharwal ‘Eye Candy’. Receives Legal Notice.

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July 02, 2015

Smita Sabharwal, one of the youngest IAS officers to have cracked the tough civil services exam in 2001, is in news after the Outlook magazine published a sexist article describing Smita as an ‘eye candy’.

What more, they even put a blatantly shameful cartoon to portray her.

Last night Smita did an exclusive interview with NDTV’s Barkha Dutt saying:

“I want Outlook to apologise to women across the country, this is an insult to women in general. It is a matter of professional pride. I have spent 14 long years in service. The write up hurt very badly. It made me think if they can do this to a bureaucrat, who is doing a serious job, possibly women across will be subjected to this sort of yellow journalism… and we must step up and put an end to it. I have worked as a figure of authority in districts and have never been treated like this.”

About the support that she is getting, she said: “I was really touched to see for every one pervert, there are lakhs of people out there who have a sense of how to view a woman.”

Her advice to working women: “Don’t let a few perverts demotivate us. We deserve better.”