Former SC judge Sujata Manohar says the law needs to classify different kinds of sexual misconduct and specify types of punishment for them even years later.
Indian sampradayas have to institutionalise their knowledge and boil it down to essentials for transmission and proselytisation if they are to compete with the major Abrahamic sects.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Shivamji, one point you have put very aptly that #MeToo is an “undue” process and you should have left it there. But you have gone on to state that those championing #MeToo are doing some kind of screening. Any such filtering has no meaning whatsoever, once the trend has been started any one can use the hashtag and post a complaint whether true or false.
Your contention that #MeToo is getting massive response in India because of its poor legal system is unconvincing.
The Print should have not just published this opinion piece, but should have backed it up by naming the lawyers and the judges who are a part of Tareekh pe Tareekh game. By not doing so, it has chosen the easy way out.
Delay in getting justice is not specific to #metoo campaign. Victims in all spheres of life have been suffering since last seven decades. Situation unlikely to change because of our desire to hang and dry powerful people of India. Here a fast track court takes more than a year to deliver justice, which is followed by High Court and Supreme Court, appeal to president and the list goes on. Solution is having more judges, more courts and setting a time frame to complete each case. Which is not happening very soon.
Two issues are getting mixed up here. 2. Me Too is valuable in itself. Not each case will be brought to trial. Many would be difficult to sustain in a court, especially those which are ten to twenty years old, there are no witnesses or corroborative evidence. The naming and shaming is serving a valuable purpose. All the pain and wrongdoing that was hidden from public view is coming out into the open. Suhel Seth has stopped tweeting. He will not be seen on many TV shows or literary festivals. Prince Charles will not meet him in London. Corporate clients with storied reputations will discontinue his retainership. Some journalists have lost their jobs. 3. I trust most of the women who are speaking up. It is evident not all transgressions are equally serious. It would be good for the movement if some vetting and screening takes place. Where a false accusation is made, colleagues who have known the person concerned are coming out to speak credibly in his defence. Of the several women who spoke up against Mr M J Akbar, the column written by Ms Ghazala Wahab in the Wire carried so much authenticity, it sealed his fate. Anyone with a smidgeon of common sense would realise this would not blow over. 4. If the ICCs are an eyewash, it would be in everyone’s interest if that changes. The bar is getting raised. It is only a matter of time before suits start getting filed, exemplary damages are awarded. 5. About Tarun Tejpal gaming the legal system with expensive lawyers, as Salman Khan has been doing all along, that is a great pity. One hopes some judge of good conscience in the apex court will put an end to this mischief. It may be cold comfort to the victim, but his life and career too have been upended.
Shivamji, one point you have put very aptly that #MeToo is an “undue” process and you should have left it there. But you have gone on to state that those championing #MeToo are doing some kind of screening. Any such filtering has no meaning whatsoever, once the trend has been started any one can use the hashtag and post a complaint whether true or false.
Your contention that #MeToo is getting massive response in India because of its poor legal system is unconvincing.
The Print should have not just published this opinion piece, but should have backed it up by naming the lawyers and the judges who are a part of Tareekh pe Tareekh game. By not doing so, it has chosen the easy way out.
Delay in getting justice is not specific to #metoo campaign. Victims in all spheres of life have been suffering since last seven decades. Situation unlikely to change because of our desire to hang and dry powerful people of India. Here a fast track court takes more than a year to deliver justice, which is followed by High Court and Supreme Court, appeal to president and the list goes on. Solution is having more judges, more courts and setting a time frame to complete each case. Which is not happening very soon.
Two issues are getting mixed up here. 2. Me Too is valuable in itself. Not each case will be brought to trial. Many would be difficult to sustain in a court, especially those which are ten to twenty years old, there are no witnesses or corroborative evidence. The naming and shaming is serving a valuable purpose. All the pain and wrongdoing that was hidden from public view is coming out into the open. Suhel Seth has stopped tweeting. He will not be seen on many TV shows or literary festivals. Prince Charles will not meet him in London. Corporate clients with storied reputations will discontinue his retainership. Some journalists have lost their jobs. 3. I trust most of the women who are speaking up. It is evident not all transgressions are equally serious. It would be good for the movement if some vetting and screening takes place. Where a false accusation is made, colleagues who have known the person concerned are coming out to speak credibly in his defence. Of the several women who spoke up against Mr M J Akbar, the column written by Ms Ghazala Wahab in the Wire carried so much authenticity, it sealed his fate. Anyone with a smidgeon of common sense would realise this would not blow over. 4. If the ICCs are an eyewash, it would be in everyone’s interest if that changes. The bar is getting raised. It is only a matter of time before suits start getting filed, exemplary damages are awarded. 5. About Tarun Tejpal gaming the legal system with expensive lawyers, as Salman Khan has been doing all along, that is a great pity. One hopes some judge of good conscience in the apex court will put an end to this mischief. It may be cold comfort to the victim, but his life and career too have been upended.