On October 1, the Wall Street Journal released the Facebook files based on a series of internal documents provided by 37-year-old Frances Haugen, a data scientist and former Facebook employee. The whistleblower, who had left Facebook in May, testified before the US Congress on October 5 that the tech giant’s products cause harm to children and weaken democracy. Haugen’s revelations once again brought Facebook’s policies under scrutiny and reignited the debate concerning hate speech, misinformation, and the privacy and security of the platform’s users.

From Edward Snowden and Julian Assange to Frances Haugen, a number of international whistleblowers have made headlines in India in the last decade. However, India has its own list of whistleblowers who have been instrumental in exposing high-profile national scams and major cases of corruption in the recent past, often at the cost of their lives.