Our home-bred best-selling novelist, Chetan Bhagat drew ire from the netizens last evening, for his insensitive tweet on rape and rupee that read - "The rupee is asking, is there no punishment for my rapists?"
Apparently, Chetan's sour humor didn't go down well with the Twitter fans who slammed him for his heartless take on crimes against women and trivializing the gravity of rape.
Bhagat was forced to bring down the tweet later following the fracas on Twitter. However, he wrote a series of tweets later in his defence -"People are flipping out on using word rape as metaphor. Murder is Ok... Oh wait, chance to attack someone, Why miss?" he asked.
"Have people lost perspective totally? Can a word officially have several meanings and contexts? Or is twitter about looking for fight?" another of his tweets read.
“I deleted the harmless tweet because my haters were cutting it up and reposting it out of context with implied meanings. Forgot they lurk,” his next tweet said.
The Twitter was relieved after Bhagat brought down his post. A follower tweeted next saying, “Dear @chetan_bhagat,can u b prosecuted for 'intellectual rape' if an unsuspecting reader reads ur book?Anyway thanks for deleting that tweet.”
Chetan Bhagat's comparison might have been meaningful, but the equation with rape just a week after a brutal gang-rape in Mumbai was why the writer was panned left, right and center.
(AW: Suchorita Dutta)
