Even judges aren't safe: Power is no protection against sexual harassment

Credit Hollywood moghul Harvey Weinstein for bringing home the universal and everyday reality of workplace sexual harassment that transcends professions, geography and, sometimes, even position

It’s invariably a rough crowd at the Traffic Court–not fun to deal with for any magistrate, male or female. Lawyers cussing over minor traffic fines is all in a day’s work. Yet, when she passed an adverse order for a minor traffic offence, the young woman magistrate was unprepared for the viciousness of the verbal assault made by the male lawyer in open court against her. “Teri aukaat kya hai (who the hell are you)?” he is said to have yelled in Hindi in open court. “Teri chaddi phaad ke rakh