Lyrics writer Javed Akhtar today voluntary cooked up a storm after calling India’s top sportsmen as hardly literate and “troll”. In all probability, he was referring to Virender Sehwag, who shared a joke and got bullied by the media, and Yogeshwar Dutt, who vocally opposed those making anti-India statements.
The cunning media twisted the statements by both of these as being against Gurmehar Kaur, a 20-year-old AAP supporter and daughter of a martyr, and Javed Akhtar appeared to further that agenda when he tweeted this:
https://twitter.com/Javedakhtarjadu/status/836537602819903488
Apart from Sehwag and Dutt, Phogat sisters too have taken a stand that has gone against the narrative of the mainstream media.
All these sportsmen who have brought numerous laurels to the country, but their different point of view has become too much for “tolerant” brigade that has been on overdrive to “show them their place”. With Javed Akhtar joining the bullies, people on Twitter decided not to take it lying down:
https://twitter.com/DOCTORATLARGE/status/836547056445579264
https://twitter.com/rahulroushan/status/836541555230064640
https://twitter.com/amishra77/status/836547046324633600
https://twitter.com/GappistanRadio/status/836542747024596992
https://twitter.com/IndiaSpeaksPR/status/836540405260877825
https://twitter.com/Atheist_Krishna/status/836544782956548097
https://twitter.com/MinhazMerchant/status/836549350356480001
https://twitter.com/ChickenBiryanii/status/836549148400758784
Even Yogeshwar Dutt who was openly insulted, was gracious enough to respond in a matter that showed that he may not have degrees, but was surely better educated in manners and decency:
https://twitter.com/DuttYogi/status/836544118306242561