Delhi girls aren't unfamiliar with eve teasing and molestation. They brave it quite often—on buses, in markets and on roads, everywhere. A leering man, a group of boys passing filthy comments as a girl passes, it's all too common. And it becomes worse if the girl is from the north-eastern parts of the country.

According to a Times of India report, a 21-year-old girl from Arunachal Pradesh was allegedly molested inside a government school in New Friends Colony in New Delhi on Thursday. Police complaint didn't bring any relief for the girl.

Speaking to Times City, she said, "I was going to the university on a rickshaw around 3.30 pm when three-four boys started passing lewd comments. One of them even touched me. As soon as I stopped the rickshaw, they ran inside and I followed. Nearly 200 boys surrounded me inside the compound. When I tried pushing them away, those behind me pulled at my skirt. They also touched me and made embarrassing comments. Some of them followed me even as I rushed out and pelted stones at me."

What was the school principal doing? Who knows, but the ToI report surely has two contradicting statements of his.

School principal Javed Qamar said, "It's unfortunate. We had heard about a woman being eve-teased outside the school. I had even sent three teachers out to see what had happened but they could not find anyone. We will help the girl and the police to identify the offenders, and if found guilty, their names will be struck off from the rolls. But a lot of times, ex-students too come to the school in uniform." (Really! They like their uniforms so much?) The school has a security guard but he had gone to switch off the water pump at the time of the incident, he added.

In fact, Qamar claims that he came to know about the incident only around 5 pm on Friday when a group of Jamia students came to his office along with policemen. (So what did he send the three teachers for?)

Are these boys preparing for the 2010 Commonwealth Games? For them sexual harassment (har-ass-ment) seems to have different meaning altogether.

In India, schoolboys are one of the most prolific eve teasers as they step into adolescence and try to define sex and sexuality. It's more vulgar in boys from families in lower economic brackets, those who attend government schools due to lack of option.

Why is it so? Maybe due to the inability of the Indian society to accept sexuality as an integral part. Though we are opening up, still there are large tracts of society where sex and sexuality is not part of a respectable conversation. We want our children to depend on friends, TV, Internet to learn about sex and let them discover their sexuality through indecent and anti-social behaviour of eve teasing and molestation. Why not impart them correct knowledge though quality books and counselling? Why not teach them about sex in school rather then letting them eve tease girls?