A random middle-aged man stopped a woman in Mumbai, asking for her phone to see news of the Dongri building collapse. He then went on to Google porn on her phone. Photo: Reuters, for representational purposes

India is a strange place. For women, more so. A Twitter user who goes by the name Garam Sankat on the micro-blogging site, shared her experience of dealing with this craziness up close. The Twitter user from Mumbai was left rattled when a 'random middle-aged uncle stopped me earlier tonight and tried to Google "HD porn" on my phone under the pretext of asking me to look up the building collapse in Dongri today'. Mumbai saw a tragedy on Tuesday, with the collapse of Kesarbhai building in Dongri leaving 14 dead and several feared trapped.

She went on to describe, in screenshots, what exactly happened.

"What happened was, I was walking on the road (a main road with cars and people and everything) on my way back to the hostel. An old uncle stopped me asking if I have internet on my phone and if I could look up the building collapse that happened earlier today," describes the person in a text message, a screenshot of which she shared online.

"I thought maybe his family friends live somewhere there and he wanted to check on updates, maybe the poor guy doesn't have a phone or his phone died or something," she writes.

"So I Googled it and showed him an article about it. Uske baad he says ye exit karke wapas Google results dikhao na (after that, he says exit this and take me to the main Google results page). I was getting a little annoyed but I did so. He's like ye phone pe sab milta hai kya net pe (can you find everything online on this phone). I said yes ," she narrates.

"He tried to use the voice command on my phone, it didn't work (because I've disabled it). I was feeling weird and said uncle duty pe jaana hai (uncle I have to go to work). He said 'ek minute'," she writes.

And this is where it gets super weird.

"Then he said something which I heard as 'ispe HDphone dekh sakte hai kya?' ('can you watch HDphone on this'). I didn't get it. Then he tried to take my phone (I was still holding it) and started to type 'hdporn'. I was like WTF man," writes the Twitter user.

She then walked away and did not check to see if he was following her.

"He was at least 55-60," writes the person, adding that maybe she was 'too naive' to think that he was an old uncle and she should have helped.

Meanwhile, many porn sites are inaccessible in India after a legal crackdown on them. But Indians, and porn sites, regularly come up with ways to dodge the block.

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