Did you know that the law requires all educational institutions, whether public or private, to have an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) that deals with cases of sexual harassment? And that Act also provides a strict procedure that governs the setting up and functioning of these committees? No? Well, a lot of colleges are pretending they haven’t heard either. We talked to students across India to find out how their colleges […]

As women employees of Infosys complain of sexual harassment at the workplace, Divya Nair asks some important questions about a problem that is still not taken seriously by management. A group of women employees has charged a senior executive of Infosys, India’s second largest IT services company, with sexual harassment. Sexual harassment at the workplace isn’t new and, much like moral policing, usually goes unnoticed. It is only when women […]