The refusal to comment on the subject reeks of a politics of convenience. It could damage Bollywood's #MeToo moment terribly.
The accounts of women like Padma Lakshmi and Tanushree Dutta show why survivors don't report rape and harassment.
While the Swedish academy takes a strict stance against sexual misconduct, it should also review its own choice of winners.
That it is a sexual violation should be evident to all.
We should not be in a hurry to cleanse old wounds by attaching every unsavoury sexual experience to #MeeToo.
We feel the need to respond to the news of a US actor’s date while young women being raped and mutilated here is not even a question.
It's time to ask why fundamental signals between men and women are being misread and, more dangerously, not being received.
Public responses have been pouring in and opinions are firmly divided over whether the 'bozo comedian's actions account for sexual misconduct.