Twitter users had an interesting time on Tuesday watching the spat between author Chetan Bhagat and stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra. It all started with Bhagat tweeting a question on his timeline recently: “Scale of 1 .. 10, how bored are you right now?”
A Twitter user had replied to this: “11 but still won’t read your book!”
Kamra trolled Bhagat with a screenshot of this reply, and tweeted: “Chetan Bhagat, even I don’t get insulted to frequently & badly...”
And Bhagat tweeted a comeback: “You have to be someone to get insulted bro.” Kamra tweeted a reply to this too.
You have to be someone to get insulted bro. https://t.co/BsMOevjIsz
— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) March 31, 2020
The author and comedian may have done their best to burn each other, but Twitter users are having a fun time observing this, hence bringing this exchange onto the trending list. Users have been replying with comments and memes to suit the situation. While some called the replies ‘savage’, others have also brought in Kamra-Arnab Goswami issue that led to the comedian being banned by several airlines.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/AqpwOVeu55
— Lazy Cat Loc-ked (@uPoliticat) March 31, 2020
— Preetam Rao 🇮🇳 (@Preetam_M_Rao) March 31, 2020
Kamra was banned by several airlines, including IndiGo, from flying aboard for a few months after he shared a video shot onboard an IndiGo flight in which the comic was seen trying to heckle the anchor. The video, which had gone viral, had the anchor trying to avoid Kamra even as the comic continued to pose him a few questions and call him a “coward” repeatedly. "I am part of the tukde-tukde narrative. You should deflate me. You should take enemies of the state down. You should make sure the country is in safe hands," Kamra was heard saying, even as the journalist continues to remain silent.
While many lambasted the comic, several others, including politicians like Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Rahul Gandhi had rushed to his support.
"The truth is that it was time someone gave him (Goswami) a taste of his own medicine," senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor had said. "These are the words he regularly uses to berate his innocent victims, except he does so in a hectoring, bullying manner & at higher volume & pitch than Kunal Kamra does in this video," Tharoor tweeted.
