Mr Akbar must go

October 11, 2018 11:56

"For now, however, India's MeToo moment is crystallising around an urgent and immediate call for accountability: M J Akbar, the minister in the NDA government who has been called out by several women for predatory behaviour as an influential editor, must go. If he doesn't step down on his own, the government he serves must persuade him of the untenability of his continuance in office."

Read the editorial in the Indian Express.

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