• Amidst generational divide, Indian feminists grapple with the issue of sexual harassment in academia

    On the 24th of October, 2017, Raya Sarkar, an Indian law scholar studying at the University of California, Davis, unveiled a “catalog of scholarly sexual transgressors” collaboratively compiled by numerous nameless female scholars on Facebook. —The primary perpetrator of habitual sexual misconduct featured on the index is Dipesh Chakrabarti, a renowned historian specializing in postcolonial theory. Subsequently, the catalog expanded in size, eventually encompassing 72 male instructors, the majority of whom were affiliated with esteemed Indian institutions such as Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Gadapur University. The department in which I am enrolled comprises three instructors listed within. That evening, several students who were closely acquainted with the aforementioned…

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