5 times Chetan Bhagat brought the house down with his tweets, and got trolled

Bestselling author, and birthday boy, Chetan Bhagat likes to stir things up on social media from time to time. And Bhagat, one of the most celebrated authors amongst the millennial lot, boasts of 13.6K followers on Twitter.

But that doesn't stop the trolls. Case in point, tweets that earned author Chetan Bhagat Twitter's collective wrath. Even though Mr. Bhagat has tweeted multiple apologies after being trolled, the damage has been done.

Over the years, he's become a punching bag for Twitter users who are quick to react every time he posts something controversial or downright stupid.


On his part, Bhagat doesn't refrain from commenting on live issues, giving trolls ample opportunities to direct their fire his way over his bait-y tweets.

Here are some notable instances when Twitter gave the author some major burns:

1. After the Men in Blue defeated Pakistan in a cricket match by six wickets, Chetan Bhagat took to Twitter to blame the partition for Pakistan's loss.


But he wasn't spared, and a terse response came his way.




2. The 'Five Point Someone' author tweeted a poll in October 2017 asking, " Did you ever, as an Indian, saw the Taj as a 'Muslim' monument (as @washingtonpost is saying it's being neglected because it is Muslim)".

The author was referring to an article that states the monument wasn't allotted cultural heritage funds in the Uttar Pradesh budget for the coming year and was also not included in the state's official tourism brochure.

However, what many on Twitter noticed in Mr Bhagat's tweet was a grammatical error, which he has since called a typo.


His so-called typo wasn't spared.


The grammar nazis sprang into action and ensured that there was no relief for Bhagat.




Although, he had apologised for the error in a tweet in which he only got trolled further.


Clearly, not many people bought his excuse on Twitter.



3. The author, after the launch of his book 'One Indian Girl', had been tweeting about it, and promoting it, day and night. In one such tweet, the author tried to get people to tweet photos of his book, in a bid to promote it further.


What Bhagat did not, but should have expected, was the degree of seriousness of the replies. As expected, people came up with the worst of photoshopped images and a few real ones that were just as bad.


It was almost as if the author had invited the wrath of Twitterati.



Bhagat, being the inspiration to most of the protagonists in his stories, did not back down. Sticking to the "no press is bad press" philosophy, Bhagat tried to save face by telling everyone how this little gimmick was his clever plan to get some easy press coverage.

In fact, he went on to say "I have learnt to use the hate and my trolls to aid my marketing. It really helps. Keep up the good work". He ended his perfectly smug monologue with an old proverb about making the best of everything.


4. When international journalist Piers Morgan, sparked an outrage on Twitter by commenting on India’s “wild celebrations” over its two medal-win at the Rio Olympics: “Country with 1.2 billion people wildly celebrates 2 losing medals. How embarrassing is that?”. However, the tweet didn’t go down well with Twitterati from India, including Bhagat.

However, it seems Morgan was prepared for the troll attack, and responded cheekily, sometimes trolling the trolls as well. And, as usual Chetan Bhagat wasn't spared.


The author could not contain himself and jumped to the nation's rescue, only to be trolled.


Trust, Piers Morgan to make a comeback with a cheeky response.


Finally, when Bhagat thought it was all over, it actually wasn't.




5. And, how can we forget his infamous spat with Twinkle Khanna. The online feud started when a user complemented her writing skills and wrote, “You are an amazing writer, you don’t need to change your name to Chetali Bhagat.”

To which, Twinkle wrote:


Bhagat, who was a new judge on 'Nach Baliye 7', taunted the 'Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai' actress and tweeted, “Well, I’d say you have the bigger challenge girl.. By the way, how do you tell the difference between the two anyway?.”

Khanna aka Mrs. Funny Bones also had an interesting response.



But never one to give up, Khanna made sure that she had the last word.