You really can pack a lot into 140 characters. A few weeks ago, I received this on Twitter: “Try to stop pedophilia in your religious institutions, Mr Jacob. Industrial level of pedophilia is alien to Ind which u ppl brought to Ind.” And this: “Wow, you are convert, so you are a beneficiary of foreign funds thru missionaries”. Both were responses to a column I wrote, arguing that attacks on dairy farmers who were Muslim and racist violence directed at African students, indefensible in themselves, were hurting the country’s image.
I retweeted both messages so that readers could make up their
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