Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Rashtrapati Bhavan during the release of Vice-President Hamid Ansari’s book Citizen and Society. Subhav Shukla/PTI Photo
On Friday, Vice-President Hamid Ansari launched his book Citizen and Society which is a collection of lectures delivered by on him on topics ranging from the role of women in a multicultural society to dynamics of a democratic nation. The book was released by President Pranab Mukherjee who also spoke at length about the importance of democracy.
“We cannot forget that without effective engagement we cannot achieve success and protest democracy. Democracies are noisy, maybe ours is a little too noisy. But it always pays if we engage ourselves with the issues,” said Mukherjee.
Ansari also emphasised on the importance of accepting diversity. “India needs to develop a mindset to move beyond tolerance to acceptance of diversity,” he said.
The event was also attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was caught unawares by a photojournalist probably while intently listening to the speakers at the event. In the picture, Modi is sitting face down in front of a number of people including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Twitter being Twitter, the image has gone viral and people are giving their own captions to it.
Sample these.
Explain your tweets on Pakistan before 2014. pic.twitter.com/SEYz10ZsRJ
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) September 24, 2016
When you get a tough movie name to express in Dumb-Charades. pic.twitter.com/4N2X67oijI
— Angry Indian Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) September 24, 2016
A group of long distance Relatives asking to an overconfident Boy “Aur beta Kya kar rahe ho aajkal” at a family reunion.(2016) pic.twitter.com/mlqdK1lbth
— History of India (@RealHistoryPic) September 23, 2016
When you have to face the Board of Directors after making tall claims but failing to meet your sales targets. pic.twitter.com/6zomR9CNng
— MS (@connectwithms) September 24, 2016
When relatives ask, “Beta shaadi kab karega?” pic.twitter.com/2KrQ3J1N1p
— Sand-d Singh (@Sand_In_Deed) September 24, 2016
MMS: 2 saal ho gaye.. aur ek bhi scam nahi??? kaise nikkamme PM ho!
NaMo: pic.twitter.com/f9JYcVWCXO
— Keh Ke Peheno (@coolfunnytshirt) September 24, 2016
“हमारी बेटी को ख़ुश तो रख़ पाओगे ना”? pic.twitter.com/ey9PjImzYo
— Smoking Skills (@SmokingSkills_) September 24, 2016
This is not the first time, a picture of Modi has gone viral. Remember his picture following Obama clicked at G-20 Hangzhou Summit in China? Well, that became fodder for Twitter trolls too.
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