Speaking at a literature festival, author
Chetan Bhagat said that Narendra Modi is being attacked by
historians, scientists and artists because he doesn’t belong to the ‘privileged
classes’. He said that the privileged class of this country couldn’t handle the
fact that the people in power were from the Hindi medium.
"If Modi and Amit Shah had attended Doon school , spoke impeccable English and were spotted with their English girlfriends, they would not have been attacked so much. "said the author.
The controversy surrounding returning of awards can be attributed to the
power shift that is taking place in the country, he said.
Bhagat said
national awards are not given by the government but rather by a jury or a panel
and thus, it's inappropriate to blame
the government for it.
"These are not mere awards, but honours that are given to an
individual for his or her individual achievement. How can you later return an
honour that you had already accepted?" he said adding now foreign media
has come into play and they are portraying India as a country which is
intolerant.
Chetan
Bhagat irked historians everywhere with his extremely banal tweet questioning
what exactly they do.
In a post on Twitter, he wrote “What do historians do? I
am genuinely curious. This happened. Then this happened. Then this. Ok work
done for the day.”
Twitter
responded with a huge resounding crack and came down on the author for his
failed attempt at being funny.
And later he pointed out that his tweet was meant to be a
"joke".
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