New Delhi, May 10: A war of words erupted between Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri on Tuesday after Tharoor shared a report on Singapore banning Agnihotri’s “The Kashmir Files”. In response to a tweet by Tharoor mentioning the ban, Agnihotri tweeted screenshots of some tweets by Tharoor’s late wife Sunanda Pushkar. On Tuesday morning, the Congress leader shared a report on Singapore imposing a ban on “The Kashmir Files”. “Film promoted by India’s ruling party, Kashmir Files, banned in Singapore.” he said. In response, Agnihotri tweeted: “Singapore is most regressive censor in the world. It even banned ‘The Last Temptations of Jesus Christ’ (ask your madam). Even a romantic film called ‘The Leela Hotel Files’ will be banned. Please stop making fun of Kashmiri Hindu Genocide.” In another tweet, he said: “Is this true that late Sunanda Pushkar was a Kashmiri Hindu? Is the enclosed SS true? If yes, then in Hindu tradition, to respect the dead, you must delete your tweet and apologize to her soul.” Tharoor slammed him for referring to his late wife. “Dragging my wife Sunanda into this matter was unwarranted and contemptible. No one is more aware of her views than I am. I have accompanied her to the destroyed ruins of her ancestral home in Bomai near Sopore, and joined her in conversations with her Kashmiri neighbors and friends, both Muslim and Hindu,” Tharoor said in a statement he shared on Twitter. “One thing I know, unlike those attempting to exploit her when she is not around to speak for herself: She believed in reconciliation, not hate,” he said. Sunanda Pushkar was an Indian businesswoman and the wife of Tharoor who was found dead in a room at Delhi’s Leela Place Hotel on January 17, 2014.(UNI)
