Rahul Gandhi mocked on Twitter

Ever since Narendra Modi took over as Indian Prime Minister, intolerance in India and Modi’s social campaigns have been regularly debated on social media channels. Adding to the intolerance debate in the country, at an awards event in New Delhi on Monday, Bollywood actor Aamir Khan spoke of “growing despondency” that he said he had felt in India for the last six to eight months.

@JasumatiPatel: “Really RaGa is pathological liar. Lies even to young female students. Has his mother brought him up to lie through his teeth? #RahulStumped”

However, here is an open letter from a student at Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru, Elixir Nahar wrote on her Facebook page: “If I had a few hashtags to throw around, they would be on the lines of ‪#‎Misconstrued‬ and ‪#‎Exaggerated‬, and this is from someone on the inside... Didn’t get your invitation? Don’t worry, it wasn’t lost in the mail or anything. It was lodged with all the other invites to media houses in P.O box: Sorry You’re Not Invited... The Indian media fed off a measly leaked clip from ANI and *BOOM*, cue #RahulStumped posts, memes and more. Smart alecks are raising imaginary toasts to the Mount Carmel students for helping the country immensely. Yet, almost the entire student body - and they will back me up on this - are bewildered and almost apologetic to Mr. Gandhi that their answers were also misinterpreted by the news. What struck me is that all the media were synonymous in one approach: Trying to pinpoint what he did WRONG. It’s so unfortunate that before he even attempts to do anything, there are vultures circling… waiting to pounce on any potential screw-up, or churn up something out of nothing. They’ve procured this image of him in their minds and they expect him to stay in that frame, and if he ventures out, they will find some way to put him back in there.”