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Allegedly, a passport officer had misbehaved with a Hindu-Muslim couple. Her senior colleagues, even the ones normally vociferous on Twitter, suddenly found other very important things to tweet about. But this quickly also became a story of how the Union Cabinet was not standing up to defend the ‘honour of a woman minister’. “And now through trolls, a lady minister and one of the most senior BJP leader is being harassed,” said Surjewala. Globally, women are 27 times more likely to be harassed online, according to Seyi Akiwowo, founder and director of Glitch!UK, a non-profit that fights online abuse and harassment in Britain. They should have been defending any colleague facing the Twitter mob, not just a ‘lady minister’. She has more political experience than the prime minister himself. Break Glass Sealing It’s not easy being a woman in politics. But Swaraj, who has broken many glass ceilings in her time, does not need the old (and middle-aged) boys’ club to come to her rescue in the virtual world. She would probably much rather they got out of her way in the real world.