Shashi Tharoor's recent tweet on traveling in cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows created quite a flutter amongst Indian politicians.
I guess an average literate Indian (I thought it was a pretty smart tweet) would have enjoyed the wit in the tweet as he is either used to being classified under this very class a lot of times prior or considered it a repetition from the question posed. Moreover the ruckus has been more from the political class than from the so called class themselves. This leads me to the other (and the main) controversy point, the usage of "holy cows". Even a naiveté could understand who Mr.Tharoor might be referring to. Alas despite his justification in a subsequent tweet he had to apologize publicly.
Now Mr.Scapegoat, you might use all your diplomatic skills at an international platform, and that is where they might work too but on domestic level and at personal front "Hail Holy cows" is the strategy to adopt. Now try following that without a tweet!
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