India’s #MeToo movement, run down as elitist and urban by critics, may not be so after all. For around three weeks now, a number of Indian women, particularly media and entertainment industry professionals, have come out with their experiences of being sexually harassed and raped over the years by male colleagues. The countrywide furore they sparked has even knocked at the doors of the government of India by now. Some commentators, though, found the upheaval “irrelevant to the real horrors Indian women face,” since those making the revelations are largely city-based, well-heeled women. However, Me Too Rising, a Google Trends data visualisation tool created this April, may...
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