When motorcyclist Jai Bharathi was leading a group of five riders on a journey from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, she was pulled over by a policeman in the middle of a highway in Madhya Pradesh. She stopped and removed her helmet. “Arrey baap re,” the cop exclaimed. “I didn’t know you were a woman. I just wanted to take a picture with you because no bikers come this way.”
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“I’ll pose for a picture if you round up some people,” she told him. “I want to give them a message.”
