THE APT REJOINDER
Shashi Tharoor’s picture with six women MPS that went viral on social media has now become a cautionary tale for his fellow MPS. Tharoor had posted a picture taken with Supriya Sule, Preneet Kaur and others on Twitter with the caption stating that who said that Parliament isn’t an attractive place to work.
This went viral with some self righteous trolls on social media accusing him of being sexist (Are we collectively losing our sense of humour?). Tharoor apologised and posted another picture of himself with some male MPS commenting (quite correctly) that this one won’t go viral but “I am an equal opportunity offender!” However, now whenever a politician is clicked with a group of women the picture comes with a statutory warning. As was issued by Sachin Pilot when he inaugurated a photo exhibition by travel photographer Nikhat Bhatty in the capital recently and posed for a picture with the artiste’s college friends.