In The Breakthrough Voice

Navigating The Internet In The Overwhelming Presence Of Misogyny

By Sohini Chatterjee 5th February, 2019

A month back, a message in my Instagram inbox from a perfect stranger read, “Kill You”. Incensed and rankled in equal measure, I visited the profil...

In Framing Change

5 Things We Figured From One Year Of Talking Online Harassment And Safe Spaces

By Breakthrough 20th December, 2018

1. When we went to Hazaribagh and learned about how men respond to women online   At Hazaribagh, we organised a pretty fun panel of experts wh...

In FYI

Doxxing – Imagine Someone Using Your Home Address To Harass You

By Mahika Banerji 24th September, 2018

The advent of the internet made it possible for each of us to leave behind a breadcrumb trail of information about us that otherwise should have be...

In FYI

Why Ignoring Hate Online Is Not An Option

By Mariya Salim 16th August, 2018

People have different experiences on social media platforms. Some are trolled for their opinions, others receive thousands of likes for their photo...

In FYI

Why Is Online Harassment Considered ‘Not Real’?

By Saswati Chatterjee 17th May, 2018

The first time I faced harassment online, I was fifteen. I grew up playing video games and was no stranger to a certain kind of coarse discourse. B...

In The Breakthrough Voice

When I Tried To Talk To My Parents About The Internet…

By Saswati Chatterjee 11th May, 2018

One of my earlier memories is my mother being angry with me because I had accessed the internet “without permission”. This was a few years back, wh...

In FYI

Cyber-crime Resources

By Breakthrough 2nd April, 2018

Today, internet usage has become an essential part of our daily lives. We need it to connect with friends, network with peers, buy/sell/rent whatev...

In In Focus

Someone told you they were harassed online. What’s your response?

By Breakthrough India and OLX 14th December, 2017

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In Editorial

Moving Forward: From “Why Now?” to “What Now?”

By Archismita Choudhury 11th December, 2017

#MeToo was a conversation, but it was also more than that – it was a coming together of women’s voices on various public, social platforms. T...

In In Focus

I Fed the Troll: My Response to Online Harassment

By Priya Menon 23rd October, 2017

“If you found a girl like “me” on the road, she would clobber the shit out of you, and squash your balls into a f***** pulp”...