The bureaucrat from Telangana who has sued Outlook magazine for deeply disparaging and sexist remarks about her told NDTV, "I want Outlook to apologise to women across the country, this is an insult to women in general." Explaining her decision to seek legal action, senior IAS office Smita Sabharwal said, "It is a matter of professional pride. I have spent 14 long years in service. The write up hurt very badly. It made me think if they can do this to a bureaucrat, who is doing a serious job, possibly women across will be subjected to this sort of yellow journalism... and we must step up and put an end to it." The magazine recently described Ms Sabharwal, 38, who works as a close aide of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, as "eye candy". Separately, it carried a cartoon which showed Ms Sabharwal walking a fashion ramp with the Chief Minister photographing her, while other politicians leer.