Shashi Tharoor’s latest ‘word of the day’ gets Twitterati talking
20/April/2018

Shashi Tharoor’s Twitter feed has come to have an interesting repository of words in the recent past. And each time the Congress MP from Thiruvanathapuram has tweeted out a new word, people’s gratitude has known no bounds. “Earlier my father used to asked me to learn one new word from the dictionary each day, now he asks me to follow Shashi Tharoor on Twitter,” has been one of the comments under one such new word Tharoor had introduced before. Interestingly, over time he has also chosen to do so with a tinge of humour and satire, especially directed towards today’s politicians. Which is why, his new word, roorback, does not come as a surprise either. He shared it along with its meaning: “A defamatory falsehood published for political effect.” Yes, so if Donald Trump feels victimised by the news, he now has got a new word to describe the publications writing about him. Meanwhile, Tharoor captioned his tweet: “I’ve had to put up with a lot of roorbacks in the last few years.”

 

 



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