India’s Muslim women journalists, academics and activists trolled by fake app listing them ‘for sale’

It was early in the morning when a journalist in New Delhi clicked “download” on an image sent on WhatsApp on New Year’s Day. She assumed it was a New Year’s greeting but her heart skipped a beat when she saw her picture, alongside degrading comments, offering her for sale as the “Deal of the Day”.The photos of another 100 Muslim women featured in the fake auction on an app. For the woman, a journalist, it was a distressing repeat of what happened six months earlier when her name was listed…