Days after anonymous #MeToo posts went up on social media alluding to "male curator" or "senior queer feminist artist" in reference to sexual harassers, an anonymous post amed Padma Bhushan Jatin Das, painter, sculptor. Yesterday, Nisha Bora, co-founder of Elrhino Paper, a paper company, detailed her experience with Das in 2004, when he forcibly tried to kiss her during an assignment.

The world of art is normally immune to current affairs. But, as it has shown across the world, no one is immune to #MeToo. An anonymous Instagram account, @herdsceneand, was initiated on October 8 as a means of "cutting through BS in the Indian art world, one predator at a time". While the initial posts didn't name anyone specifically, it used terms such as "male curator" or "senior queer feminist artist" in reference to a harasser. Two days ago, an anonymous post accused Padma Bhushan Jatin Das, painter, sculptor, and father of filmmaker Nandita Das, of inviting the woman to his bedroom in her nightclothes.