After speaking on rape, Indian singer calls out online trolls in viral Facebook post

A few days ago, Bollywood actor Salman Khan compared himself to a "raped woman" after an action shoot for his forthcoming film Sultan. Singer Sona Mohapatra was one of the few people from the Indian film industry to criticise Khan's comment, and has now written about being trolled and receiving threats for her views.

Mohapatra has been tweeting about the string of abusive tweets she was been receiving. Several other women who spoke out against Khan's comment have also written about being trolled. In a viral Facebook post, Mohapatra referred to a recent brutal rape in India, and wrote of the need to speak out against rape culture.

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On Facebook, she wrote: "The fact that I have been mercilessly trolled in the last 48 hours, with 1000's of rape threats, inundated with morphed naked porn images & threatened to be put out of work & lots more is only an indication of the poison in our society. Poison that gets a chance to flow freely when national 'Icons' created not only by their followers & audience but encouraged by their peers & media, regularly misbehave, talk rubbish, do rubbish, don't get punished, don't learn from their mistakes but instead get encouraged, celebrated, pack cinema halls & become brand ambassadors of 'goodwill'."  

While there have been several demands for an apology from Khan, but the actor has responded with a joke. "The less I speak the better it is," Khan said at a recent event.

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