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Twitterati question Tharoor on ignorance about poet-lyricist's identity

By IANS | Updated: December 23, 2019 22:35 IST

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's tweet about not knowing the identity of National Award-winner lyricist and comedian Varun Grover has gone viral on Twitter.

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Tharoor posted a clipping of Grover reciting a poetry condemning the Citizenship Amendment Act on @ShashiTharoor and wrote: "I don't know who this brilliant poet is, but 'hum kagaz nahin dikhayenge' is destined to be one of the most powerful anthems of the #CAA_NRC_Protests!"

The 55-second clip of Grover got 299.3K views, 9.5K retweets and 30.2K likes.

Grover had on Saturday shared the poetry 'We won't show our papers' on his Twitter handle to summarise the political developments in the country in the past few days.

He had written: "Inspired by the spirit of every protester and Indian-lover. With hat-tips to Rahat Indori saab and the Bangla slogans (There is no copyright on these words feel free to use them, adapt, sing, modify, create)."

Replying to Tharoor, many users identified the young poet.

One user wrote: "Hi sir, this is comedian @varungrover who also happens to be on a BJP hit list along with @kunalkamra88. Brave men."

One user commented: "Really @ShashiTharoor?? You don't know who @varungrover is??!"

One user remarked: "'Moh moh ke dhage' being the most amazing lyrics by him."

One post read: "It's very unfortunate on your part not to know who Varun Grover is."

One Twitter user commented: "Chill!! These are English-speaking people. They don't know everything."

One fan had a funny take on the tweet of Tharoor: "He knows only women poets."

( With inputs from IANS )

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