LoSHA (List of Sexual Harassers in Academia) was a crowdsourced list of sexual harassers in academia that was compiled in 2017 by Raya Sarkar, a law student studying at UC Davis School of Law. [1] This list, published on Sarkar's Facebook page [2] with the intention of a cautionary list rather than for institutional action, [3] was cited to have marked the advent of the #MeToo movement in India. [4] [5]
Sarkar received death threats within days of publishing the list which included professors from renowned institutions including Indian Institute of Technology (Bhubaneswar) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences. [6] Fourteen notable self-proclaimed feminists including Nivedita Menon and Kavita Krishnan also published a statement expressing dismay over the list, citing a commitment to due process.