#MeToo Campaign took a new bold turn in India on October 5, when several Indian women journalists took to Twitter to call out the sexual predators in the media industry.
It all started on Thursday, when a Mumbai based writer revealed the horrifying incident where comedian Utsav Chakraborty sent her vulgar messages and harassed her.
Soon after, several young women shared the incidents where they were sexually harassed by the ex-AIB comedian.
On Friday, the Me Too movement gave courage to many more women journalists to publicly confront their harassers. Indian men journalists employed with Business Standard, Times of India and The Hindu have been named and shamed.
https://twitter.com/AnooBhu/status/1045526902612480000
Back in 2005, I was 25, and taking shelter from the flood in Bombay at a colleague's house, @manojanthikad sent me a text, "I want to fuck you." He took my number from a mutual friend and decided to charm me when Bombay was drowning with that approach. https://t.co/andMvyuV5X
— Sandhya (@TheRestlessQuil) October 5, 2018
Networks were screwed and I couldn't reach friends to find out how he had gotten my number. We both worked at the same newspaper.
When things got back to normal, and i confronted him he said he was drunk and he meant to send it to his wife. Okay.
Of course, no screenshots
— Sandhya (@TheRestlessQuil) October 5, 2018
He tried to do it with me too. I was a journalism student back then. I am attaching screenshots of his messages here. He apologized so I let it be. Never knew it was because "I was that type of girl". pic.twitter.com/6wORBoFBAE
— Priyanka Bansal | پریںکا (@priyankapranks) October 5, 2018
10 years ago, as a cub journo, I was harassed at The Hindu by a senior business reporter in Hyderabad. I wasn't believed immediately. TH didn't have a internal committee either. Had to withstand that creep for 3 months before they finally let him go with full benefits…#MeToo
— Padma Priya D (@priyakamal) October 5, 2018
Okay. After the @/wootsaw incident I would just like to bring attention to @/kitanurag if it hasn’t been brought already. This happened three years ago and I am mentioning it so that if it did happen to other women they can speak up on it too. I am sure it did.
— m. (@malsnt) October 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/sandygrains/status/1048059369277947904
I have recieved that biscuit video that Anurag sent as well. I remember telling him it's gross and also about other wierd licking the screen or something like that sort of snaps. It puzzled me as to why he sent those out but I would just be like oh okay I'm not funny enough.
— T. (@altzina) October 5, 2018
Since I'm calling them out.
Let me tell you about @KRSreenivas who is currently resident editor @toi Hyderabad (I think) who offered to drop me back after a day's work.
We were about to launch Bangalore mirror back in 2008 and I had just moved to this city.— Sandhya (@TheRestlessQuil) October 5, 2018
https://t.co/9bPeI9heka I documented that here on my blog back in 2011 pic.twitter.com/VbgeTgqxvf
— Sandhya (@TheRestlessQuil) October 5, 2018