‘Bro made Shashi Tharoor type in Hindi': Internet in splits after Congress leader writes ‘Bhai kehna kya chahte ho?'

Time of India

4 hours ago

Congress leader and former minister Shashi Tharoor has responded sharply to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's recent remark labelling India as 'a bit recalcitrant' in trade negotiations. Taking to X (formerly called Twitter), Tharoor retorted that it is 'far better to be recalcitrant than tractable, submissive or acquiescent to injustice', emphasising India's right to assert its interests. The remark drew both admiration and mockery online. One user, in a tongue-in-cheek nod to Tharoor's famously ornate vocabulary, replied in a similarly elaborate style, parodying the MP's linguistic flair with a flourish of mock-grandiloquence. And Tharoor's reply to this has now gone viral. Read more...
Tharoor, a former global diplomat who recently led a multi-party delegation from India to the US after Operation Sindoor, shared a post on his X that read, "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."
Reacting to this, one user humorously wrote, 'That's fine, Shashi—but what about the abnegation of camaraderie in the egregious enfranchisement that springs from the fatuous grandiloquence of the impecunious and insidious semaphore?'
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.
A look at Shashi Tharoor's response
In a rare moment of casual humour, Shashi Tharoor responded to a verbose and overly elaborate comment on his post with a simple, disarming reply: 'Bhai, aap kya kehna chahte ho?' (Brother, what are you trying to say?).
His witty comeback left netizens amused, especially given Tharoor's own reputation for highfalutin English. The irony of the situation wasn't lost on users, who praised the MP for his self-aware and humorous response to someone seemingly imitating his famously grandiloquent style.
Netizens react to Shashi Tharoor's reply in Hindi
As soon as the video surfaced, it quickly grabbed the attention of netizens; one said, "@grok explain what @sagarcasm said to shashi ji in his own language."
"Dear Mr. Shashi, on this occasion, you find yourself ensnared in a most deleterious predicament. Your habitual proclivity for employing abstruse and sesquipedalian vernacular to confound adversaries has, regrettably, culminated in a lamentable misapprehension of the rejoinder," another said.
"Looks like my school folks taught me something entirely different by making me speak English."
'Bro made Shashi to type in Hindi 🤣🫡' 'He said Justice for Sanju Samson in 10 different languages.'
'Now I understand what we Indian English-medium school folks go through while reading your tweets,' one said.