After Sonam Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha ruthlessly insulted

Twitter is soon becoming a menace for users and a thriving field for trolls.

Hiding behind anonymity, trolls get some vicarious pleasure out of harassing users specially women. They are always on the lookout for their next target.

Anything you say that does not please them makes you eligible to be abused and trolled.

Things that set them off - a typo, a misplaced word, a comment not thought through or anything that they don't agree with.

Of late several Bollywood actresses have experienced some brutal, sexist harassment on Twitter.

While male actors also experience similar fate, women face more vicious backlash. Actresses get abused about their physical appearance, their intellect, family background even their relationships comes under the radar.

Neha Dhupia, Shruti Seth, Sonam Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Anushka Sharma and the usual victim Sonakshi Sinha are prime examples of how virtual troll army will battle against you and rattle you from within till you give-up.

Twitterati trolled Neha Dhupia mercilessly after she posted a tweet criticising Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government for its incapability to put infrastructure in place.

It earned her quite the backslash and sexist comments after trolls on Twitter questioned her choice in films, her political affiliations and made jokes on her being a woman- all because she asked a question to a democratically elected government.

Indian actress Shruti Seth posted on Twitter: "The darkness of this place leaves me hopeless."

Shruti was trolled, abused and attacked on Twitter for her criticism on Narendra Modi's selfie with daughter drive.

Anushka was taunted and ridiculed for typing the wrong name while paying her condolence to former Indian President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.

The most recent casualties are Sonam and Sonakshi who have dared to question a week-long ban imposed in Mumbai on meat for a Jain festival.

Sonam shared a story about the meat ban and added: "Our country (India) is going to remain a 3rd world nation because of the intolerant misogynistic close minded few."

As she labelled the ban as 'misogynistic' on Twitter several users jumped at the opportunity to troll her.

Sonakshi mockingly posted, "This is a free country! Welcome to BAN-istan... I meant india.. Stupid autocorrect. (sic)"

Following this, she further tweeted, "Why no ban on ignorance/negligence? What about the flood affected people of assam? Priorities people. Priorities. (sic)"

As expected, she received responses similar to those for Sonam and faced a backlash for holding such a viewpoint.

She was charged with double standards by Twitter.

Sonakshi's critics have excavated a 2014 tweet from her asking then-Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan to ban cosmetics tested on animals.

Insults have been hurled at her, her intelligence questioned and cruel jokes on here were in abundance - after all, this is Twitter

It's not the first time the actress has been trolled; she's repeatedly and randomly made a target over the size of her forehead, on her weight and her father's political affiliation. .

It seems trolls are happy as long as these actresses run around trees romancing their heroes and not allowed to express their opinion on political/civic issues.

These trolls enjoy impunity and so they go on a rampage about some one's character or career without fear of any consequences.

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