Mumbai may be oceans apart from the US, but like the rest of the world, this city too has its eye on the circus that the US presidential race has turned out to be. The contest is currently overshadowed by the allegations of sexual harassment against Republican candidate Donald Trump.

His lewd comments, passed off as ‘locker room banter’, have taken the narrative out of the narrow election plank. Even as you read this, more women are coming forward with their own experiences of being touched inappropriately or molested by Trump. It is not this editorial’s aim to prove whether the women are speaking the truth or not. Cases of sexual harassment are inherently private in nature, so there will always be a ‘she said, he said’ debate. And yet, to dismiss these women’s accounts just because they are coming forward decades after the incident is belittling the victims.