After getting rape threats by Salman Khan fans, Sona Mohapatra shares touching post about 21-year-old Bihar rape victim

Her compelling message puts things into perspective about pressing issues of our country.

Published: June 23, 2016 5:47 PM IST

By Priya Prakashan

After getting rape threats by Salman Khan fans, Sona Mohapatra shares touching post about 21-year-old Bihar rape victim

The incredibly talented singer Sona Mohapatra recently made us all proud by being vocal about what was wrong about Bollywood fandom and uncouth superstars like Salman Khan. The singer was the only celebrity who stood up for many of us in putting across her opinion about how trivialising something like ‘rape’ is not funny at all. Sona Mohapatra voiced her mind against the biggest Bhai of Bollywood with her tweet that read: “Women thrashed, people run over, wild life massacred & yet #hero of the nation.’Unfair’.” But just after 48 hours of being trolled for going against Salman Khan, the brave woman had to take to social media yet again to address something important!

Sona has now reacted to the gangrape of a 21-year-old woman in Bihar. The brutal incident reminded all of us of the Nirbhaya incident in Delhi in December 2012.

Post her bold tweet against Salman, the singer did not just face some petty messages from the fans of Bhai but also was given rape threats on social media! Not only that, she was inundated with morphed naked porn images! Sona was also threatened to be put out of work for speaking her mind!

Although there is freedom of speech online on Twitter in 140 characters, but post the tweet by Sona, what followed was a string of nasty tweets by the supporters of Salman Khan who trolled the singer online. Her response was epic; she managed to shut down the Salman fandom with another tweet that read: “You continue to prove my point with every perverted, sick, cheap message you write to me. HaHa.” (ALSO READ: Sona Mohapatra gives epic reply to Bhai’s chamchas for her criticism over Salman Khan’s ‘raped woman’ comment).

This time, Sona Mohaptra took to her Facebook page to share a message about the 21-year-old rape survivor in Bihar. She has made every word count in this compelling message shared on Facebook:

“A 21-year-old was brutally gang raped in Bihar’s Motihari town. Guns & wooden sticks inserted into her, putting her in a critical condition. The culprits are absconding. Yet again. Meanwhile Soni Sori has been fasting for the 9th day to get justice for other such brutalised & killed women in Chattisgarh. No TV news debate on this. No glamour there I suppose. Every time I was called to opine on these debates the last few days, the moment I brought up the bigger issue that needs to be talked about & not merely what I said about a comment made by an imbecile..silence..no takers. So I avoided them all.

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’.

Depressing to say the least. Can’t give up though. I have trained all my life for this. Have to get up, dust myself & live a life worth living. & in a Billion plus country, containing the largest population of many many good, honourable, hard working people, I will not let the the stupid, dangerous, nasty few win. Who will put us out of ‘work’?? Salman Khan??!! That ‘talented’ (!?) thug? I don’t think so. I can think of 100 different ways to make a living & thrive but I will choose to sing & perform my music till the last day. Not him, not anyone can stop that.

I cannot even imagine the pain of that 21 year old girl, her family & the struggles of Soni Sori but I do know that I can commit to their cause. We are all linked up by the same umbilical cord. Rape is no joking matter.”

We feel it is rather depressing, to say the least, when someone stands up against the filth and speaks out his or her mind, and find themselves in a spot. Obsessed fans of celebrities who support their idols blindly need to know the difference between wrong or right and black or white. It is high time we got our priorities right. Discussing about things that actually matter has taken a backseat, as we are pre-occupied with discussing whatever that comes across as glamorous or is the ‘in thing’.

With this simple write-up, Sona Mohapatra has compelled us to think about everything that is wrong with the society today. How we are miserably failing to recognise the fluctuating difference between right and wrong, ethical dilemma and moral richness of our life.

Story edited by Shweta Parande.

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