вЂњI have a thick skin,вЂќ she said at one point during our visit. On DuttвЂ™s own feed,В every tweet is followed byВ outpourings of bile.В I tried to imagine living with that kind of continuous assault, and couldnвЂ™t. But in India, whereВ the rape of womenВ and sexual abuse of childrenВ are a growing crisis, DuttвЂ™s outspokenness on the issue clearly makes her a special target.ДЄnd these are just the tweets I saw. Much of the online vitriol against Dutt is blatantly misogynist.В That isnвЂ™t exclusive to India, of course outspoken women elsewhere in the world suffer similar attacksВ on a regular basisВ (see Gamergate, for example).

But itВ has become another stick to beat her with. InВ 2010 she was caught up in anВ influence-peddling scandal,В accused of helping a corporate lobbyist, Nira Radia, get aВ particular politician-who was later charged with money-laundering-installed as telecoms minister.В Dutt flatly deniedВ doing any lobbying, and even her critics could provide noВ evidence that she had, reported the Wall Street Journal (paywall). 'Sorry Zomato, as woke as your decision on PeriodLeave is, this is exactly what ghettoizes women and. And when Pakistan-based terrorists attacked Mumbai in 2008, she was accused of jeopardizing the lives of hostages inside a city hotel under siege by broadcasting details of the armyвЂ™s rescue operation as it was happening.Д®ven though other networks didВ the same thing, Dutt has become aВ favoriteВ target of nationalists. Well known journalist Barkha Dutt on Tuesday took to Twitter stating that was a bad idea. During IndiaвЂ™s Kargil war with Pakistan in 1999, she wasВ the rare woman reporter at the battlefront,В but wasВ accused of having compromised Indian troop positions (for instanceВ by using a satellite phone-an allegation that IndiaвЂ™s own army chief at the time, Ved Prakash Malik, subsequently dismissed, according to Dutt). ItвЂ™s trueВ Dutt has done thingsВ that could beВ criticized.

But ultimately, itвЂ™s because вЂњshe is a powerful, fiercely political, single, independent woman, and Internet trolls canвЂ™t stand that,вЂќ wrote Priya Ramani, a columnist for LiveMint, earlier this year under the headline вЂњWhy everybody loves to hate Barkha Dutt.вЂќ

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