LoSHA

LoSHA (an abbreviation of List of Sexual Harassers in Academia) was a crowdsourced list of sexual harassers in academia that was compiled in 2017 by Raya Sarkar, a law student studying at UC Davis School of Law.^[1] This list, published on Sarkar's Facebook page^[2] with the intention of a cautionary list rather than for institutional action,^[3] was cited to have marked the advent of the #MeToo movement in India.^[4][5]

Sarkar received death threats within days of publishing the list which included professors from renowned institutions including Indian Institute of Technology (Bhubaneswar) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences.^[6] Fourteen notable feminists including Nivedita Menon and Kavita Krishnan also published a statement expressing dismay over the list, citing a commitment to due process.