Thanks to all the women who networked beautifully when the complainants including me were put under huge pressure. Please feel free to leave your names under comments if you want to endorse it.
5th January 2016
Hello public
There has been growing number of reported complaints of women students being sexually harassed at educational institutions. And shockingly there has been a trend of social media slandering or community shaming of those who have complained. They have been targeted, called names and accused of spoiling the ‘image’ of the educational institution. We find this attitude utterly disturbing and deplorable.
We - artists, filmmakers and human right activists and concerned citizens, condemn any pressure on students who have complained against any harassment on campus. The student complainants should not fear or face any discrimination for speaking up against any kind of abuse.
We look forward to the enquiry committee that has been set up at SRFTI [Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute], Kolkata, according to the laws of the land to investigate the matter to understand the seriousness of the nature of complaints and arrive at due actions. We stand in solidarity with other women students from FTII[Film and Television Institute of India],Pune who came out and complained against sexual harassment on campus.
We also hope that the student community will be extremely sensitive in the use of language while talking about this issue and would not put any pressure overt or covert on student complainants.
Yes, it is a moment when we need to take a stand and introspect – both men and women – on why we are unwilling to engage with the complexity of established gendered power equations and structures in our everyday contexts, even so-called “liberal” ones and why we hesitate to hold accountable those who violate the idea of positive consent between adults. As people working in the world of arts and ideas it’s doubly important that we respond with sensitivity and nuance, rather than easy categorisations, to the overt and unspoken ways in which sexual politics operates in our environment.
In complete solidarity with the women students who have complained,
- Gargi Sen
- Deepa Dhanraj, Filmmaker
- Kavita Joshi
- Leena Manimekalai, Filmmaker
- Miriam Chandy Meenacherry
- Nishtha Jain, Filmmaker FTII
- Paromita Vohra ,Writer,Filmmaker
- Saba Dewan
- Shazia Khan
- Surabhi Sharma ,Filmmaker FTII
- Tangella Madhavi, Filmmaker
- Amal Neerad, Filmmaker
- Rukmini Sen, Writer, Producer
- Kani Kusruthi, Actor
- Zeba Imam, Academician
- Adwaita Das, Filmmaker, FTII
- Mainak Guha, SRFTI
- Sreecheta Das, SRFTI
- Ishan Sil, SRFTI
- Kunjila, SRFTI
- Debja Ni, SRFTI
- Subal K R, SRFTI
- Vaibhav Hiwase, SRFTI
- Kalhan Raina, SRFTI
- Chetna Kaul, Director, FTII
- Nilanjan Banerjee, Director, SRFTI
- Kalyani Menon Sen, Feminist Learning Partnerships
- Meena Seshu, Sangram
- Amrita Shodhan, SOAS, University of London
- Neha Gupta, Correspondent, Japan Broadcasting Corporation
- Anita Ghai, Ambedkar University
- Abha Bhaiyya, Women Rights Activist
- Geeta Seshu, Senior Journalist
- Urvashi Butalia
- Shahida Murtaza
- Marantha GT Wahlang, PhD student
- Virginia Saldanha
- Uma V Chandru, Researcher, Bangalore
- Govind Kelkar
- Juhi Jain, Feminist Activist
- Khushboo Agarwal Editor, FTII
- Amit Raj Director,FTII
- Irene Dhar Malik, Film Editor FTII
- Kavita Pai, Filmmaker,FTII
- Batul Mukhtiar Filmmaker,FTII
- Jabeen Merchant,Editor,FTII
- Reema Borah, Director,FTII
- Jyoti Kapoor, Writer, FTII
- Pinky Bramha Choudhary, Filmmaker
- Shobit Jain, Filmmaker ,FTII
- Arjuna Raja
- Onirban ,Director,Producer
- Myna Mukherjee, Cultural Curater & Producer
- Simon Frenay, Actor
- Ashish Bhisht, Actor
- Shanthi Mohan,Cinematographer
- Aswathy Raveendran, Researcher,PhD
- Arshia Malik, Writer,Academician.
- Aarti Tikoo Singh, Sr.Journalist TOI
- Aswini Malik, Writer,Director,Academician.,FTII
- Himanshu Srivastava, Researcher Science Education
- Vasudha Mohanka, Doctoral Scholar
- Ayesha Kidwai
- Sumi Krishna
- Teena Gill
- Ritambhara Mehta
- Anshu Jain
- Rituparna Borah
- Nazariya, A Queer Feminist Resource Group
- K.C. Bindu, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Rajashri Dasgupta
- Pujita Guha
- Zalina Gamat Director,FTII
- Fatema Kagalwala, Editor, FTII
- Vatsala
- Inji Pennu, Journalist, Global Voices
- Promona Sengupta
- Bedatri Dutta Choudhury
- Smriti Nevatia Filmmaker
- Dr. Manasi Palshikar, Writer, FTII
- Manish J. Tipu, Music Composer,Singer
- Gouri Patwardhan Editor, Director FTII
- Bela Negi, Director FTII
- Geetika Tyagi Actor.
- Pooja Sharma Cinematographer FTII
- Manjushree Abhinav Filmmaker FTII
- Shobha SV,Media Professional
- Ajita Nair ,Filmmaker
- Gagan Judge ,Filmmaker
- Manjushree Abhinav, Director FTII
- Arun Kumar ,Social Development Professional Mumbai
- Arundhati Hazarika,Social Developement Professional London
- Deepshikha Nainani, Media Professional
- Samrat Mukherjee ,Journalist
- Sandali Thakur, Academician
- Satyen K Bordoloi Writer
- Ruchika Oberoi ,Writer,Director FTII
- Bindhulakshmi P, TISS
- Asha Achutan, TISS
- Smita Dutta
- Sreyoshi Sen
- Shruti Anindita Verma, Filmmaker
- Saswati Ghosh, Academic and activist, Kolkata
- Preethi Krishnan
- Neeraj Malik
- Nisha Susan, Writer
- Srijani Dey, SRFTI
- Sudipto Basu
- Darshana Mini, PhD Student, University of Southern California
- Sridala Swami, Writer, FTII
- Suhel Banerjee
- Rehna Khalid
- Jina Dcruz
- Dhrupadi Ghosh, Researcher, Jamia Millia Islamia
- Subrata Sinha
- Tania Mukhopadhyay, Cinematographer, SRFTI
- Deborah Dutta, Researcher, Science Education
- Gurinder Singh, PhD Student, Mumbai
- Aisha Kawalkar, Researcher, Science Education
- Subeesh M P, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Oceanography
- Dr. Rohan Deb Roy, Lecturer, University of Reading, UK
- Dr. Shinjini Das, Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
- Dipanjan Sinha, Journalist, Midday
- Shriya Bandopadhyay, PhD student, JNU
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