Global media on why Hema Committee report may have set off another #MeToo wave, and Kashmir's conundrum

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Before #MeToo upended Hollywood, India tried to do it first, theNYTpoints out in a report on the movement in the Kerala film industry..

TheNYTalso contextualises the release of the Hema Committee Report and its galvanising effect on the heels of the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkatas RG Kar hospital..

One can understand why.. Suggesting rich and poor countries can fight climate change together, aneditorial inThe Washington Postasserts that the onus is on the US to deploy green technology beyond its borders but questions whether India will accept any movement in this direction...

US politics are still stuck on the notion that contributing to decarbonisation in India and Bangladesh is foreign aida favourrather than a contribution to the well-being of all humans, including Americans, it points out, suggesting more climate-proactive steps in what it callspoor countries such as India or Bangladesh...

While mentioning that the White House has called India a strong strategic partner, the opinion piece references Kugelmans assertion that the Kyiv visit shows Indias strategic autonomy and that it isnt in the business of placating Western powers..