This is in response to the letter you have published ostensibly from staffers of The Statesman who are extremely angry at my "allegations" against Ishan Joshi.
Not that I am surprised at the letter bring sent The Hoot, close on the heels of you writing about the matter. I do not wish to comment on it, and the signatories, knowing full well that the management is easily capable of arm-twisting its employees to sign on a pre-drafted document, especially when their employment and livelihood is at stake.
I stand by every word I have written, and shall always do so. To suggest that my complaint is false is a comment on the West Bengal State Commission for Women, which does not accept any case unless a thorough screening is done. The fact that it has taken up my case and is pursuing the matter since the past eight months is self-explanatory.
I only wish to comment on what has been said about colleagues standing by and not intervening to stop the harassment I was undergoing. Your readers are by now familiar about what happened in the Ambarish Mishra case, where a minor girl was raped in full view of a whole lot of spectators, and no one did anything to stop the heinous act.
Could I expect any one to bother to intervene when someone like me, who was neither illiterate nor a minor, was being pawed, when sticking out their necks would mean my colleagues losing their jobs?
And then, this was no rape!
Rina Mukherji