The ripples of the #MeToo movement have reached India, where one law student has published a list on Facebook accusing more than 50 Indian professors of sexual harassment - but it's touched off a debate about whether "naming and shaming" is an effective tool against alleged abuse.
After the outpouring of allegations in Hollywood and in other industries, 24-year-old law student Raya Sarkar asked fellow students to send over their experiences with "academics who have sexually harassed or were sexually predatory" towards them.
"I wanted to make my friends and friends of friends aware and wary of different sexual predators - based on first-hand testimonies," Raya Sarkar told BBC Trending. "I put the list out to make students safe."
This crowdsourced list was published on Facebook and shared more than 1,000 times. It named professors alongside their university affiliations, but included no details about the allegations or the accusers.
While a couple of men on the list have had official complaints filed against them, there are no legal charges against the majority of the named professors
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