The story of controversial journalist Sagarika Ghose and Singapore based author Prasenjit Basu who posed a tough question to Rahul Gandhi during the latter’s visit to the county doesn’t seem to be ending.
We had reported yesterday how Ms Ghose had launched an abusive, elitist and anti-Hindu tirade against Mr Basu, for asking a question which stumped the Congress President.
The question posed pertained to asking Rahul why India’s per capita income grew slower as compared to the world when “his family” was in power. It was followed up by asking why did the per capita income see a much faster growth soon after Rahul’s family relinquished the Prime Ministerial position of the country. The Gandhi dynast failed to come up with a convincing answer and the Congress later put up a doctored video to mitigate the damage.
This “humiliation” had possibly caused a lot of grief who put out this tweet:
Without @OfficeOfRG ‘s great grandfather @PrasenjitKBasu wouldn’t be in Singapore, wouldn’t speak English, wouldn’t have written a book in English, instead would be a cow dung trader busily drinking cow urine and puzzling over ten headed demons riding flying chariots https://t.co/OWWMrOQ90E
— Sagarika Ghose (@sagarikaghose) March 9, 2018
The hatred, contempt and elitism dripping from the tweet surprised many including Union Minister Babul Supriyo who expressed grief at Ms Ghose’s manner of expressing disagreement.
Prasenjit Basu the author, decided to respond to this tweet by revealing that he and Sagarika were students at the same college and had even acted in various plays together, including one which was directed by Sagarika’s father Bhaskar Ghose. He even claimed that they were close friends:
She and I were close friends in college, and acted in several plays together — in one of which, her esteemed father was the Director. She and I have had a few disagreements and debates, but this gutter-level attack is against our shonkshkriti, surely!
— Prasenjit K. Basu (@PrasenjitKBasu) March 9, 2018
This “candid admission” though irked Ms Ghose who soon decided to refute his claims of being “close friends”, and co-actors in multiple plays:
Sorry PK, I was never your “close friend”, we acted in one play together in which Sunit Tandon was the director and judging from your crude, crass cheap prejudices I hope I never see you again. Have a nice life!
— Sagarika Ghose (@sagarikaghose) March 9, 2018
Basu though wasn’t willing to take it lying down and proceeded to call out her “selective amnesia” by claiming that her father had directed the play Troilus and Cressida, where they had both acted. He then proceeded to mock her as a Congress stooge masquerading as a journalist:
Thanks for your convenient amnesia, Lalu. Your father directed us in Troilus and Cressida, as he well remembers. Congratulations on becoming a Congress chamcha who masquerades as a journalist. Your ilk have disgraced the profession, living off the crumbs from the Congress loot
— Prasenjit K. Basu (@PrasenjitKBasu) March 10, 2018
Ms Ghose though hasn’t yet come back with a response to Basu’s latest allegations, which includes any sort of a denial of the same.
