Thread by @ShashiTharoor

This is the poisonous bilge the Chowkidars are spreading in my constituency on @whatsApp, @Facebook & @Twitter: a statement by a fictional character in my 1989 Great Indian Novel describing a historic practice of earlier centuries, twisted to imply my views of today’s Nair women.

https://twitter.com/shilpamdas/status/1113296932678586368

It shows contempt for the voters to seek to exploit their ignorance of the source & context, which in any case was accurate about the past it describes. Unfortunately many are taken in by these lies. BJP is incapable of being ashamed of itself; but why can’t social media act?

I call on those who run @whatsApp, @Facebook & @Twitter in India&who claim to be concerned about the misuse of their platforms by political fake-news peddlers to make an example of this specimen, to start with. The echo-chamber repeating her lies is part of an organised campaign.