Author Chetan Bhagat came under severe criticism on micro-blogging site Twitter after he criticised historians who slammed the Central government for ‘growing instances of intolerance’ in the country. 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.”
As soon as he said it, Twitterati didn’t wait to respond.
https://twitter.com/mojorojo/status/659974722667479041
https://twitter.com/APoonia19/status/659981415287664640
Though, he later said it was a joke.
This is not the first time Bhagat has used this term “Joke. Duh!”. Recently he tweeted about the writers who have returned their Sahitya Akademi Awards to protest against intolerance and faced a backlash and called that a joke too.