He who lives by Twitter shall...

May 20, 2015 08:57

Tuesday will go down in history as the first bad-Twitter day for Narendra Modi, the coiffured prime minister who rarely has had a digital bad hair day since taking over a summer ago.

Modi, susceptible to being carried away by tumultuous receptions abroad, appears to have crossed the 140-character rekha when he said on his latest foreign tour that "earlier, you felt ashamed to be born in India". Not once but twice -- in Shanghai on Saturday and in Seoul yesterday.

The PM, true to his style of dividing the history of India into "before-me" and "after-me" in the manner of messiahs, was trying to draw a distinction between the country he inherited and the one he rebuilt in the past 12 months.

The dam broke in the morning - and digital fire and brimstone fell mercilessly upon the unchallenged poster-boy politician of the Twitter age.

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