[Ghosh is receiving messages from women from across the globe saying they too want to be a part of this campaign.]
New Delhi: Amid reports of protest in more than a dozen cities in India against lynching of Muslims, a photography project which shows women wearing a cow mask and asks the politically explosive question - whether women are less important than cattle in India - has set the social media on fire.
Talking to BBC, Sujatro Ghosh, a Delhi-based photographer, says it is "his way of protesting" against the growing influence of the vigilante cow protection groups that have become emboldened since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014.
"I've been concerned over the Dadri lynching [when a Muslim man was killed by a Hindu mob over rumours that he consumed and stored beef] and other similar religious attacks on Muslims by cow vigilantes," Ghosh said.
He says during a visit to New York recently, he bought the cow mask from a party shop and, on his return, began shooting for the series, taking pictures of women in front of tourist hotspots and government buildings, on the streets and in the privacy of their homes, on a boat and in a train, because "women are vulnerable everywhere".
Ghosh is now being trolled on social media and also being threatened for his project. Some people have even approached police to lodge a complaint against him.
"Some wrote comments threatening me. On Twitter people started trolling me, some said I, along with my models, should be taken to Delhi's Jama Masjid [mosque] and slaughtered, and that our meat should be fed to a woman journalist and a woman writer the nationalists despise. They said they wanted to see my mother weep over my body”, he says.
He is however not scared.
"I'm not afraid because I'm working for the greater good," he says.
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