Three years after giving the world, Parched, Leena Yadav is back as a director with her Netflix debut—Rajma Chawal. The film attempts to showcase relationships in the light of technology and social media, all set within the surroundings of old Delhi. Rajma Chawal premiered at the BFI London Film Festival this year and was screened […]
Yesterday, a #MeToo Movement began in Indian journalism when women came out in the open to acknowledge workplace harassment. In an outstanding display of courage, numerous women outed creepy male colleagues and superiors, only to find out that they were not alone. By afternoon, almost every man accused of alleged inappropriate conduct with women faced multiple […]
Late 2017 saw the #MeToo campaign in Hollywood. The campaign spread across and sparked off a movement. It had actors, people from film crews and others openly share their stories and encounters with sexual abuse. The movement marked its peak when a plethora of accusations, including rape and sexual harassment, against Harvey Weinstein came to […]
On Thursday, in the first big celebratory trail of the #MeToo era, Bill Cosby was convicted on three counts of sexual assault, reported CNN. Cosby, who broke all racial barriers in Hollywood on his way to TV superstardom as America’s Dad, was charged guilty of drugging and molesting a woman. Drugged and Assaulted the Woman […]
The wife of a Kerala parliamentarian, Nisha Jose, has recently published her memoir. What has shocked the readers is Nisha’s #MeToo moment in the book. Wife of Kerala MP Jose Mani, Nisha has not taken any names in the matter of sexual misconduct she had experienced. However, following the memoir’s publication, Shone George, the son of a legislator, […]
With allegations of sexual harassment against actor Jeetendra, many people are hopeful that our #MeToo movement is finally here. But is the Indian society even ready for a #MeToo? With a patriarchal society in which we struggle to maintain a healthy sex ratio and curb crime against women, how much heed will people pay to […]
#MeToo is riding a new wave of feminism in India writes Alka Kurian, Senior Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell. Reading other women’s #MeToo stories brings back memories of my sexual abuse as a young girl growing up in the late 1970s and 1980s in India. Like many women, I couldn’t talk […]
