'Kya kehna chahte ho?' X user's word salad stumps Shashi Tharoor
"I hear some people are accusing India of being 'recalcitrant'. I say, far better to be recalcitrant than to be tractable, submissive or acquiescent to injustice," he wrote.Enter X user 'Sagarcasm'. Known for his memes and funny takes, Sagarcasm turned the tables on the Congress leader with a flowery word salad.'That's fine Shashi but what about the abnegation of camaraderie in the egregious enfranchise that comes from the fatuous of the grandiloquent at the behest of impecunious and insidious semaphore?' he tweeted.The ever-eloquent Tharoor seemed momentarily stumped — or at least amused — and responded with an uncharacteristically simple comeback in Hindi: "Bhai aap kya kehna chahte ho? (Brother, what are you trying to say?)."
The self-deprecating turn set the Internet roaring.'Bro made Shashi type in Hindi,' one user marvelled. Another added, 'Even Tharoor got confused.'A third weighed in: 'I assume most of us have the same question about your initial post.'Some broke out the memes.
Even Grok, the AI chatbot, chimed in when asked for a simpler explanation of Sagarcasm's post."Grok is delighted to elucidate: sagarcasm's ostensibly profound query exemplifies a satirical abnegation of coherence, juxtaposing egregious verbosity with fatuous grandiloquence to parody the insidious semaphore of impecunious rhetoric, thereby enfranchising camaraderie through humorous abjuration. In essence, it's delightful nonsense," it said.Tharoor may have met his match in verbal gymnastics. But if reactions on social media are an indicator, he also scored a political win: proving he can laugh at himself in any language.- EndsMust Watch
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