#MeToo has taken India by storm. Media houses have been extremely instrumental in providing a platform for this movement, where the victims have been able to come forward, tell their story and be heard. Media houses or their journalists have no special protection under defamation laws in India despite stern attempts being made by the Editors Guild of India to …
Editor’s note: Following Rituparna Chatterjee’s report — Is India’s #MeToo moment here? “The women of my generation,” says a third senior journalist who started her career in the early 1970s, “were largely engaged in fighting a different kind of battle. Jerath believes women still must cultivate a personal psychological barrier — one that prepares them to say ’no’, clearly, to …
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