India, Feb. 23 -- The issue isn't just India-Nepal relations. The issue isn't just the racist treatment of international students by university authorities. The issue isn't just the desperate backtracking of an inhuman stance by a private university.

At its heart there is only one issue. How do institutions respond when women complain about harassment?

Prakriti Lamsal, a 20-year-old third year BTech student from Nepal at the Kalinga Institute of Technology (KIIT) was being harassed and blackmailed allegedly by an ex-boyfriend, fellow student, 21-year-old Advik Srivastava. She reportedly complained to the international relations officer who summoned Advik, and let him off with a warning.

How differently everything could have turned out ...