‘Mythologist’ Devdutt Pattanaik has been having an epic meltdown on Twitter. The ‘Devi’ author has referred to women on Twitter, complete strangers, as ‘chudail’ and ‘bitch’. Continuing his bizarre rant from last night, Pattanaik today morning tweeted a morphed image of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as Goddess Lakshmi and asked for a movement to get Dr Subramanian Swamy to be appointed as Finance Minister in place of Sitharaman.
Remember the movement to get Kalam ji a second term ? Can we start a campaign to get Dr. Subramaniam swami ( who actually knows economics) as finance minister? Why is he being ignored? Court conspiracy? @SwarajyaMag @OpIndia_com @TrueIndoIogy are you up to this dharmik task? pic.twitter.com/Pf0mUpePMy
— Devdutt Pattanaik (@devduttmyth) October 13, 2019
Sitharaman, visibly bewildered at this bizarre behaviour of Pattanaik, took to Twitter to wonder what is he up to.
— Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) October 13, 2019
At this, Pattanaik then said he may have crossed the line and ‘apologised’.
I guess I crossed the line. Apologies. ?? https://t.co/3jzVkGSUIq
— Devdutt Pattanaik (@devduttmyth) October 13, 2019
Only to explain how Sitharaman should have never ‘allowed’ this morphing of image.
This picture is really really Bad Vaastu for economy. Madam should have NEVER allowed it. But who cares for opinions of lowly people like me who actually read the scriptures? Again apologies for crossing line . ?? https://t.co/5QRWqmYF8t
— Devdutt Pattanaik (@devduttmyth) October 13, 2019
He then claims how this image was ‘bad Vastu’ for the economy and he knows it because ‘he reads scriptures’. Wonder which scriptures condone the language in the following tweets of Pattanaik.
You daft dodo… neenga is a term of respect meaning aap in Tamil. I cant believe you are this stupid!!! ??
— Venky (@venx36) October 13, 2019
Once he realised perhaps ‘reading scriptures’ may not make him learned, he again went on an offensive.
चुड़ैल को तमिल में क्या बोलते हैं ? पे ????
— Devdutt Pattanaik (@devduttmyth) October 13, 2019
The ‘Shikhandi’ author even resorted to making a homophobic comment, asking someone to go to a dating site for homosexuals.
Twitter cchhodd aur Grindr par jaaaa . Khub success paogey
— Devdutt Pattanaik (@devduttmyth) October 13, 2019
Which is weird, considering he himself came out of the closet and had openly admitted he’s gay. Pattanaik, in his book ‘Shikhandi: And Other ‘Queer’ Tales They Don’t Tell You’ writes about LGBTQ stories in Hinduism.
Read: Two-tier free speech: the magical hypocrisy of Javed Akhtar
Devdutt Pattanaik has metamorphosed into this proverbial dog chasing a car made popular by Heath Ledger who played the role of Joker in The Dark Knight. He continues to froth around his mouth, bark and run but doesn’t quite know what to do once the car stops.
Lovely response to this troll tickling tweet of mine ? . Read the foulest of Gaalis of Vedic-trolls and enjoy ?!!! https://t.co/V4dHi36xFd
— Devdutt Pattanaik (@devduttmyth) October 10, 2019
He probably needs medical intervention for the psychotic meltdown he is having. Twitter has been a great leveller in more than one ways. These ‘celebrities’ one had put on a pedestal growing up because of their way with words, like Javed Akhtar and now Devdutt Pattanaik, have fallen from grace because of the way they interact with the ones who are actually their end consumers.
Perhaps it is time Pattanaik uses his gift of words and stops being a bitch.
