(This story originally appeared in on Nov 14, 2018)

#MeToo Hits 2018 Nobel Prize For Literature, No Award In 75 Years

Autoplay Autoplay 1 of 2 Nobel Prize In Literature Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2017. The man behind seven novels, a short-story collection and screenplays, Ishiguro was born in bomb-hit Nagasaki in 1954, and moved to England at the age of 5. Nobel Prize in Physics The physics prize was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss (L), the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish (C) and Kip S. Thorne (R) "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".



They received the prize for the discovery of gravitational waves released in the world by violent events in the universe such as the mergers of black holes. Weiss, professor emeritus of physics at MIT, along with Thorne and Barish, California Institute of Technology physicists, pioneered LIGO, or the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, the scientific project that made gravitational wave detection possible.

BENGALURU: Three weeks after Kannada actress Sanjjanaa Galrani accused director Ravi Srivatsa of harassing her during the shooting of ‘ Ganda Hendathi ’ 13 years ago, she apologised to him on Tuesday.“I was very young when it happened to me and was disturbed, but today things are different. My intentions were not to hurt anyone in the industry or members of the directors’ association. I am very sorry,” she said.During the recent #MeToo movement — which took the Indian media and entertainment industry by storm, with survivors sharing their sexual harassment ordeals on social media — Galrani had claimed that Srivatsa had harassed her during the shooting that happened 13 years ago. He had forced her to enact intimate scenes which she wasn’t comfortable with. She had signed up for only one kissing scene but was eventually asked to shoot 15 such scenes, which were not demanded by the script. The actress also alleged that Srivatsa had threatened and yelled at her during the shoot.Refuting the charges, Srivatsa questioned the reason behind her silence all these years and accused her of using #MeToo as a platform. “None of her accusations is worthy… why did she sign the film when the script was narrated to her before the shoot… I demand an apology,” he had said.Following this, Srivatsa complained to the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce and the Kannada Film Directors Association claiming that the actress had tarnished his image by making false allegations.Senior Sandalwood actors intervened and held discussions with both the actress and the director even as an informal investigation was underway. Actor Ambareesh requested Galrani to take back her words for making such “baseless allegations” against a member of the directors’ association of the Kannada film industry, following which Galrani apologised to Srivatsa.