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#MeTOO: In Her Own Words – Survivor Stories
Tushita Patel, Sandhya Menon, Raksha Kumar. Moderated by Narayan Ramachandran.
Three women talk about sexual harassment in the workplace and outside. What happened? How did it happen? Why wasn’t it reported? How can it be prevented? First-person accounts of the MeToo movement from the ground up.
Speakers
Tushita Patel
Tushita Patel was part of the team that started the Asian Age in 1993/4. She left the paper in 2000. She is the executive producer of a national award-winning film Stumble and author of a cookbook Flash in the Pan. For the last 15 years, she has worked in the UB Group. She lives in Bangalore.
Sandhya Menon
Sandhya is a journalist with over 15 years experience across national newspapers. Currently, she is an independent journalist, apart from being committed to the cause of living with mental illness, on which she regularly writes and speaks.
Raksha Kumar
Raksha Kumar has reported for The New York Times, BBC, Guardian, TIME, South China Morning Post, Scroll and The Hindu. In 2017, she was shortlisted for Kurt Schork Memorial Awards in International Journalism. For her work on land conflicts in India, she was awarded the Chameli Devi Award for Outstanding Media Personality in 2016. In 2015, she wrote, shot and directed a documentary film on Rationalists in Contemporary India.
Narayan Ramachandran
Mr Ramachandran is the father of two girls, husband of a writer, social entrepreneur, columnist and private equity partner. He is a cofounder and fellow at the Takshashila Institution, sits on several boards and writes a bi-weekly column called A Visible Hand for Mint newspaper.
