On 12 October 2017, Priya Ramani, who is a senior journalist, writes an article for Vogue India titled ‘To the Harvey Weinsteins of the world’. She describes her experience with her senior, an editor who harassed her without naming him.
Two years later, on 8 October 2018 – around the time the MeToo movement picked up pace in India – Ramani tweets, “I began this piece with my MJ Akbar story. Never named him because he didn’t ‘do’ anything. Lots of women have worse stories about this predator – maybe they’ll share.”
Now this was a very big deal because Akbar was a Minister of State at that point of time. Subsequently, over a period of time, 19 – yes 19! – other journalists came out against Akbar, accusing him of sexual harassment, molestation and rape.