Congress’s Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, often lauded for his exceptional vocabulary, is known for bowling people over with his extraordinary…
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Congress’s Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, often lauded for his exceptional vocabulary, is known for bowling people over with his extraordinary command over English.
Who could ever forget the tweets that left everyone looking for a dictionary? First it was ‘farrago’, and then came ‘rodomontade’ that even inspired an Amul topical, which asked, “Tharooraurus anyone?”.
“Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations&outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalst,” Tharoor had once tweeted.
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After a while, the Congress leader summed up this masterpiece in a tweet, “To all the well-meaning folks who send me parodies of my supposed speaking/writing style: The purpose of speaking or writing is to communicate w/ precision. I choose my words because they are the best ones for the idea i want to convey, not the most obscure or rodomontade ones!”
For once, it was Shashi Tharoor who found it difficult to find his way through words, but not in English (obviously).
Independent journalist Akash Banerjee challenged Tharoor for a Hindi quiz and the result will leave you in splits. We remember how Tweeters couldn’t resist pointing out his grammatical errors when he tweeted in Hindi on Hindi Diwas? Check out what happened when he was asked to define ‘lauh-path gamini’, ‘jumla’, ‘gulchharre’ and ‘achhe din’ among other Hindi words.
Watch the video here:
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