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Shashi Tharoor
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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.
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.
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