New Delhi: Union Minister Shashi Tharoor was today heckled by BJP women workers, who were protesting against lack of safety for women, at a function here to mark International Women's Day.
Last week, Shashi Tharoor launched the 'Tiranga Bangle', an initiative by Naveen Jindal's Flag Foundation of India. The bangle claims to provide 'natural, environment-friendly and non-chemical-based healing'.
Not surprisingly, the reactions on social media to the bangle - and to Tharoor's association with the launch of the bangle - were harsh, immediate and critical.
On twitter, Sunanda Vashisht?(@sunandavashisht) asked, TrivortexTirangaBangle??? Are you guys serious??? What did Mr. Tharoor do to all his scholarship?
?@greatbong took a swipe at Jindal, but left Tharoor out of it. So this JindalTirangaBanglewill go up against Nazar Suraksha Kavach. Take that Zee. A Dekhe Zara Kisme Kitna Hain Dum, he tweeted.
First came Minister Shashi Tharoor's tweet. Then came the chorus of voices backing it and opposing it. Finally the approval of the family to name a possible new anti-rape law after the 23-year-old women who was brutally gangraped and assaulted in Delhi that was cited as the ending point in the debate.
But as an Indian Express report shows, that while they may have no objection about a law, hospital or anything else being named after her, the woman's family is rather tired of being asked for their view on every point in the debate.
People should not forget that till the last minute when she was conscious, my sister was wary of even relatives visiting her in hospital. She constantly told me to make sure nobody knew what had happened to her, her 19-year-old brother said, asking for the family to be left alone.
Mumbai: After Union Minister Shashi Tharoor today favoured naming the revised anti-rape legislation after the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim, his party's MLA from Mumbai has demanded that the Milan subway flyover here be named after the braveheart.
Congress MLA from Vile Parle Krishna Hegde met Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan this evening and suggested to him that the flyover be named after the gang-rape victim.
Myanmar's opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, left, speaks at Lady Shri Ram College, her alma mater, as Indian Junior Minister for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor, right, takes her picture in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Suu Kyi, who arrived Tuesday, is on a five-day visit to the country. Seated are College principal Menakshi Gopinath, second right, and College founder Arun Bharat Ram.
India's Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor (R) speaks with Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during her visit to her former college Lady Shri Ram (LSR), in New Delhi November 16, 2012. Suu Kyi urged India on Wednesday to stand by Myanmar on its journey to democracy, on her first trip to Myanmar's neighbour since it dropped its support for her democracy movement two decades ago in favour of the ruling junta. EUTERS/B Mathur.
