How #MeToo is battling sexual oppression, breaking caste barriers in India

What is unique about this movement is that it is a multilayered struggle

Reading other women’s #MeToo stories brings back memories of my sexual abuse as a young girl growing up in the late 1970s and 1980s in India.

Like many women, I couldn’t talk about it then. India had a tradition-bound society with strict gender norms and expectations. But a lot has changed since.

A new and powerful anti-sexism movement began in India, long before the present day feminist resurgence in the U.S., as I explore in a book I recently co-edited.

New modes of protest

In the early 21st century, millennial Indian women launched a radically new kind of