What has changed a year after #MeToo in India enabled women to speak up?

A year ago, India's #MeToo movement witnessed women across India speak up against sexual harassment. Nikita Puri assesses what, if anything, has changed

In a high-rise steel-and-glass building in Gurugram, the conversation among colleagues is perhaps best described as casual. “How stupid was it to get caught?” says a young man, “Who says these things on Messages?” He then tells his male colleague to proceed with caution, else he’ll be “MeToo-ed”. A female colleague adds light-heartedly, “Tere ko andar karwa dungi zyada bakwas kia toh (I’ll have you put behind bars if you spout such nonsense).”

A year after India’s MeToo movement outed sexual harassers on social media, conversations like these have become commonplace, says Gigi Mathew (name changed on request), who works in