India, Nov. 23 -- A Dalit professor from Government Art College in Ooty, Tamil Nadu has shared her experience of being subjected to caste and gender based harassment and discrimination at the hands of a colleague. Unsurprisingly, not only was she discriminated against for having spoken up and pursued a complaint in the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) set up under PoSH guidelines, but the committee, too, let the woman down.

What happened in this case?

According to this article in The News Minute, in February 2022, Dharmalingam (the accused) who is a professor at the same institute, passed sexually coloured remarks about her and commented on her sex life. The Principal of the educational institution, Eswaramoorthy, who is of the same ...