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Hello Jammu News at 11:52:00 AM 0


Mumbai, Oct 11 (PTI) Aditi Mittal Wednesday issued an unconditional apology to fellow comic Kaneez Surka for violating her space but said her "intentions were not sexual in nature".
Surka accused the comedienne of sexual harassment, claiming the fellow comic "forcibly kissed" her on the mouth two years ago at a comedy show.

Mittal said she gave the improv artiste, who was hosting an open mic, a peck on the lips "as a joke as a part of the act" but "there was no tongue". 

She had apologised later to Surka when she realised the discomfort she had caused.

"The intentions were not sexual in nature. I realised that after talking to Kaneez that it was a violation of her space and to this day bothers her very much. For this I am unconditionally sorry," Mittal wrote on Twitter.

She said she and Surka talked about the matter at length in 2017 and her contemporary accepted her unconditional apology.

"We discussed the rampant sexism in AIB which she was just discovering and promised to have each other's backs in a boys club," Mittal said of the comedy collective of which Surka is an active part.

Addressing Surka's claims that she had turned "hostile" towards her, Mittal said she began to consciously avoid any place that she or anyone from those social circles might be, "out of respect for her space". 

Mittal said Surka gave her a two-day ultimatum to speak up and when she did not, the latter went ahead with her account on social media. She apologised once again.

Surka Wednesday alleged Mittal violated her boundaries of personal choice and "humiliated" her in front of an audience of 100 and many comedians.

She said seeing Mittal's name all over social media as "a champion of the cause" had been troubling her for some time and only a public apology would bring her closure.

Mittal had retweeted Surka's post.

In the #MeToo movement which is surging ahead, Mittal is the first woman to have been named for sexual harassment.

The campaign first hit the comedy industry last week when Utsav Chakraborty was accused by multiple women for harassment with AIB co-founder Gursimran Khamba been directly accused of misconduct. 

AIB's Tanmay Bhat has stepped away from the comedy collective and Khamba has been sent on "temporary leave of absence".

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Hello Jammu News at 3:10:00 PM 0



Canberra, Feb 13: Ten years ago, Aboriginal Australian Ian Hamm welcomed words he had been waiting a lifetime to hear.
"For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendents and for their families left behind, we say sorry," Kevin Rudd, then Prime Minister, said in Parliament.
The apology on 13 February, 2008, referred to a shameful national chapter in which indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families. Mr Hamm was among them.
As a three-week-old baby in 1964, he was taken from his Aboriginal family by government officers and adopted into a white community. Tens of thousands of other indigenous children were removed over successive generations until 1970, under policies aimed at assimilation.
Mr Hamm said Mr Rudd's historic apology helped change his own sense of identity.
"My country doesn't argue about me any more -- it gave me peace that my story, like so many others, wasn't a matter of debate," he told the BBC.
"I remember writing out my feelings the day after the speech and I called it: 'Today is the day I wake up.'"
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future.
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.
We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.
For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.
To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry.
And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.
An estimated 20,000 members of the Stolen Generations are alive today. Many have described the apology as a watershed moment.
"It was a day I will never, ever forget in my life because we were being acknowledged as a group of people," Aunty Lorraine Peeters told the Special Broadcasting Service.
Michael Welsh told the Australian Broadcasting Corp: "It's made a big difference to me in my life, through my life, where I've journeyed."
A landmark 1997 report, titled, Bringing Them Home, estimated that as many as one in three indigenous children were taken and placed in institutions and foster care, where many suffered abuse and neglect.
A government-funded survivors group, the Healing Foundation, said it had a "profoundly destructive" impact on those removed and their families, many of whom had carried lifelong trauma.
Indigenous Australians, who comprise about 3 per cent of the population, continue to to experience high levels of disadvantage.
On Monday, the government released an annual report showing that Australia is failing four of seven measures aimed at improving indigenous lives.
Mr Hamm said that much optimism about addressing inequality had not been fulfilled since the apology. However, urged Australians not to give up.
"It's easy to give in to despair and say it's too hard, but for us, remembering a moment like [the apology] is a boost," he said.
"It's a breath of air into our lungs to revive you and keep you going." UNI
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