[ZESTCaste] ‘Fake’ Jhunjhunwala takes on real Shekhar Gupta

http://wearethebest.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/fake-jhunjhunwala-takes-on-the-real-shekhar-gupta/

'Fake' Jhunjhunwala takes on real Shekhar Gupta
24 December 2011

That dead-tree journalists are cut off from the digital world is
evident from the manner in which they react to blogs, tweets and
status updates that don't consider them god's gift to journalism.

Indian Express editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta is without doubt one of
the top journalists of his generation, with a magazine, newspaper and
television profile that is the envy of most.

But even a man who has covered wars, tribal insurgencies, terrorism,
massacres, missile attacks, jihad doesn't have it all covered in the
new age, it seems.

In his weekly column today, Gupta, 57, quotes from the Twitter feed of
"Fake Jhunjhunwala", assuming it to be from the real one, the stock
broker Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.

The operative portion of Gupta's piece
(http://www.indianexpress.com/news/national-interest-the-caste-of-corruption/891508/0)
reads:

"The upper caste, creamy layer of our society is the most
prejudiced, and yet the most dominant minority in any democracy in the
world. That is why even the person representing Mayawati on otherwise
brilliant funny-man Cyrus Broacha's show on CNN-IBN always has a
blackened face (Dalits are supposed to be dark-skinned, no?) and that
is why the man described by breathless anchors of our blue (business)
channels as India's Warren Buffett, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, sends out
tweets like this: "Don't think [Kapil] Sibal even understands the
internet. This happens when you make a lawyer an IT Minister. Like
hiring Mayawati for an item song." Of course, Mayawati could return
the compliment by gifting him a very large mirror. But can you imagine
the real Warren Buffett getting away with saying something like this
about Michelle Obama?

Little wonder, Jhunjhunwala has hit back with a series of tweets (here
https://twitter.com/#!/jhunjhunwala/statuses/150522167266775040, here
https://twitter.com/#!/jhunjhunwala/statuses/150522167266775040, here
https://twitter.com/#!/jhunjhunwala/statuses/150522558092021760, here
https://twitter.com/#!/jhunjhunwala/statuses/150523625789861888).

For the record, Jhunjhunwala's Twitter's profile reads:

"I invented Twitter. I'm humble. I've attained omni God mode.
Aspire/ don't envy.

Disclaimer: I'm Fake Jhunjhunwala. The real parody writer of the
Secret Journal of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala"

The Express slip-up comes about a month after the gossip column of the
paper made the same mistake of thinking it was from the real
Jhunjhunwala.

Also, for the record, Fake Jhunjhunwala has a column under the byline
"Fake Jhunjhunwala" in the Hindustan Times in Bombay, and was recently
quoted as "Fake Jhunjhunwala" in an Outlook* magazine story on Kapil
Sibal's attempt to "pre-screen" internet content
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?279280

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