Teengocheers: Musings

Asks who? Well our very own Chetan Bhagat. (Un) Arguably the dumbest IITian ever, Chetan Bhagat appears to be a sucker for fame and limelight. Or was he trying to please Mr. Modi? What happened was historians in India including the respectable Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib raised their concernj over the recent communal violence in Dadri and elsewhere in a joint statement. The statement released by them says “Differences of opinion are being sought to be settled by using physical violence. Arguments are met not with counter arguments but with bullets.”

Chetan Bhagat wants to know what exactly historians do and Twitter is quick to tell him

So what does Chetan Bhagat do. He logs into his twitter account and makes a faux pass. He asks the Twitterati “What do historians do? I am genuinely curious. This happened. Then this happened. Then this. Ok work done for the day.”

And we know Twitterati. They can’t let go of a question of this stupid magnitude unanswered. They responded and what happened was awesome. Such funny, hilarious and mind blowing tweets came out from everywhere that will make you go #ROFL and #LOL. Here I reproduce some of the most hilarious tweets of them all that (actually I am not sure) would have made Chetan feel sorry for the slip.

https://twitter.com/chetan_bhagat/status/659962069849083904

Twitter responded with a huge resounding crack and came down on the author for his failed attempt at being funny.

@chetan_bhagat What do authors do? I am genuinely curious. Judge one talent show, then judge one dance show. Ok work done for the day.

— Akshar (@AksharPathak) October 30, 2015

It of course ended up becoming a recurring theme among Twitterati.

What do athletes do? They put one foot forward, then the other foot, then repeat 200 times. Ok work done for the day https://t.co/29WZwmSfF0

— Rohan (@mojorojo) October 30, 2015

What do scientists evn do? They science here. Then some science there. Ok. Now?

— Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) October 30, 2015

Also for @chetan_bhagat, what do artists do, brush here, brush there, done for the day. Scientists, microscope here, telescope there, done..

— ranjona banerji (@ranjona) October 30, 2015

@chetan_bhagat please return your IIT degree.

— Biswa Kalyan Rath (@kalyanrath) October 30, 2015

And for @chetan_bhagat, engineers and mechanics, nut here, bolt there… Hmmm. That ought to do it for my day.

— ranjona banerji (@ranjona) October 30, 2015

I know that what history will do is forget Chetan Bhagat.

— Rohan (@mojorojo) October 30, 2015

What does @chetan_bhagat do? Type some words, then some more, then a paragraph and then ok work done for the day. https://t.co/QkrD0kB8Od

— Dave Besseling (@davebesseling) October 30, 2015

.@chetan_bhagat what do IIT-IIM grads. do? I’m curious. Write tharki love stories. Then, judge Nach Baliye. Ok work done for the day.

— Trendulkar (@Trendulkar) October 30, 2015

For a writer of impact to make such an ignorant statement is shocking. Even science is history @chetan_bhagat

— Suchitra (@suchitrak) October 30, 2015

Chetan Bhagat’s next book: ‘Making India Stupid.’ https://t.co/xSDP6bZkjD

— Amit Varma (@amitvarma) October 30, 2015

What did Chetan Bhagat’s professors at the IIT and IIM do? I’m genuinely curious.

— Sayantan Ghosh (@sayantansunnyg) October 30, 2015

Today’s Twitter fight followed a similar script. After a firestorm of tweets, Bhagat tried to backtrack and issued this clarification.

In case it was not blatantly obvious that historian tweet was a joke. Made a million of them on writers and engineers before. Duh!

— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) October 30, 2015

It appears Chetan quickly got his answer on Twitter about what historian do. That’s the power od #SocialMedia you see. You can’t get away with your stupidity