Mumbai: Hurt by the outrage on social media, Nidhi Choudhari (IAS) has made matters verse. She poured out her feelings in an expressive, though lengthy Facebook post on Tuesday, with the disclaimer, "#WriteBeforeYouAreWrittenOff Views are deeply and purely personal. Not written in official capacity. Infer the intended meanings. Don't jump to conclusions without reading every word of the poem." Some excerpts: Woh pooche kyun dhanyawad kaha Gandhiji ke hatyare ko/ kyun aawaahan kiya unki murtiyaan todne ke naare ko... (They ask why I thanked Gandhi's assassin/why I instigated cries to break his statues...)
Kyun kiya Gandhiji ko apne shabdon mein badnaam (Why did I insult Gandhi with my words)...Kyun Godse ko dhanyawaad kiya (Why did I thank Godse)... Kya dekh nahi paaye tum woh chehra aansuon se labrez (Why didn't you recognise the weeping emoji)... Mein samajh na saki 17 May ke vyangya par/Kyun chahe koi 31 May ko media mein coverage (I do not understand why my tweet on May 17, was given coverage in the media on May 31)... Bulayi thi press conference to/ek phone mujhe bhi kar lete (Why didn't you call me once, when you called a press conference).
This, ostensibly, is Choudhari's allusion to the Nationalist Congress Party, which first raised the issue on Saturday. However, the press conference was not for the tweet, but to analyse the party's debacle in the recent Lok Sabha elections. It however, was the occasion when the tweet was shared with the media. Further, in her poem, she says it is Mahatma Gandhi's words that have helped her cope in these times. "Koi aur tumhe kose shayad/Gandhiji ke moolyon ne mujhe sawara hai. (Anyone may taunt me but Gandhi's values have shaped my thoughts). She reasserts that truth can never be killed. "Satya ghayal hua hai magar kabhi na hara hai/jab jab satya ko aanch lagi, woh takkar se aur bhi nikhrega/... (Truth may have been injured, but it is not vanquished. Whenever truth has been singed, it has only emerged brighter...).
