Anoo Bhuyan
Delhi
Blew open the lid on #MeToo in Indian media, along with Sandhya Menon
In India, this was the year when tweets shook up foundations. On October 4, Anoo Bhuyan, journalist with The Wire, posted a series of tweets, naming fellow reporter Mayank Jain of misconduct. Jain, who was with Business Standard, was immediately fired, and within days, names from the media industry started pouring out, bringing the edifice down.

"I was breathlessly following #MeToo 12 months ago, when [law student] Raya Sarkar came out with her list [naming alleged sexual predators from Indian academia]," says Bhuyan. "I was upset because #MeToo wasn't taking off in India in any substantial way. Part of my frustration was also with myself, because I was not willing to come out with my own #MeToo stories. There are a couple of professions, in which #MeToo wasn't breaking out in, like the media circle, the legal circle, the medical circle.