#MeToo effect: Gautam Adhikari resigns from US think-tank?

October 09, 2018 12:01

The Center for American Progress, where senior Indian editor Gautam Adhikari was a senior fellow, has removed his web page.

Adhikari had been accused of sexual harassment while editor of the Times of India and DNA newspapers by former colleagues in the wave of #MeToo accusations sweeping across the Indian media.

US-based professor of journalism Sonora Jha tweeted: 'A reporter with a top US newspaper sent me a message this a.m. that #GautamAdhikari says he resigned from his job as senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington D.C. Saturday after the #MeToo truths.The Center has removed his web page.'

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