A placard is kept next to an Indian journalist at a protest against sexual harassment in the media industry in New Delhi on October 13, 2018. - India's #MeToo movement has engulfed Bollywood figures, a government minister and several comedians and top journalists. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)
It was a seemingly harmless tweet that enraged Mahima Kukreja and put the 28-year-old on the frontline of India’s #MeToo firestorm.
The advertising professional was on her way to work Oct. 4 when she saw a message from popular comedian Utsav Chakraborty, who has a television show and nearly 50,000 Twitter followers, about a recent incident of Indian men behaving badly on a cruise ship in Australia, which he said was an “embarrassment” to fellow citizens. Wasn’t this the same person who’d sent her an unsolicited photograph of a penis two years ago?
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