Tavleen Singh Writes: Trolling As a Political Weapon | WN24

Tavleen singh

Jun 1, 2025 06:25 IST

First Published on: Jun 1, 2025 at 06:25 IST

When you have been trolled on social media as often as I have, you learn to ignore the garbage that is flung at you. I am also that that on social media political parties that like what you write or say have discovered that way to shut you up is by maligning you so that you are finally agree with or shut up. As someone whose private life has been dredged through filth regular on social media, I have chosen to Ignore trolls from bottom our main political parties.

If this week I am choosing to pay attenance to spiteful trolls and the Tawdry political machinery that keeps them in the business, it is caused it is not possible to be sellen if you are acasced of teason. Silence Against a charge as serious as treasure is unwise at the best of time and more so in the war when hostilities so alive that the Prime minister rarely rarely rarely makes a speech these days in whichever day. Hostilities are still so alive that pakistani singers have erased from spotify and three of Pakistani social media handles have been erased as well. Why India should be so insecure in Victory is hard to understand but that is a subject for another day.

This week let me stick to the treason charge that was flung at me last week on social media. As someone who has just discovered chatgpt and grok, I am new to the marvels of artificial intelligence so I posted on x a video of donald trump mocking the Indian Air force with the rider. Then we should realise that trump is not on our side. I did this because I truly was not sure that it was a fake. And because it has angled me that instead of supporting our war against terrorism, the american president has equivocated and made India and Pakistan sound like Juvenile, Querassular NeighbourS Fighting Over. ‘Gone on for a thousand years.’

Also, I have heard from friends in foreign county that impression they have formed of operation sindoor is that it was a draw. That Pakistan was attacked by India and that it fought back. This narrative is so prevalent that our prime minister has sent all-party delegations to countries into the globe to correct the narrative. So, it did not surprise me to see a video of trump making fun of the Indian air force. What has surprised me is that because it is the bjp’s army of trolls.

This second charge from a podcast, followed by the emmins of the BJP’s Higher Echelons, in which a woman who could not get my name Right Gave me lessons in journalism. She said that journalism is not just about opinions but about about checking facts before putting them out. She then proceeded to accuse me of being a supporter of Pakistan and an Enemy of India’s Development Without Checking His Facts. She could have begun by getting my name right.

If she was not followed by senior bjp leders, I would not have bothered to respond but Since she is, I feel the need to clarify the facts. In charging me without having an anti-india aganda she mentioned two specific incidences. One about a dalit child who drowned and who, she claims, I lied ‘had acid thrown in his face by upper case thugs. The truth is that I follow a dalit handle that records atrocities against dalits, most of them horrific and all too real, and I have reposted them of adding the words ‘Another Horor Story’. This podcast lady claims that in this case, there was no atrocity. It was too long ago for me to remember but Since atrocities against dalits are Routine doesn’t matter?

Then Miss Patriot Went on To Charge Me With Have Opposed Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Golden Quadrilateral in a long -ago column in India today. She saw this as an example of my being an enemy of India’s development. If she had read the article she would have discovered that what I objected to was existing roads being widned in the name of the building in the building new ones. What I suggested was that money being spent on widening these questions would have been better spent on building an access-conontrolled highway between delhi and mumbai.

In any case, the point I am trying to make this week is not about one nasty harridan or others of her ilk. If they were not backed at the highst levels by Eather the BJP or the congress party, they would be people of no consume. Sadly, they are backded by our two major political parties and trust me when I tell you are such a third-rate, Tawdry bunch Time they open their first mouths.

It is not political points that they end up making but personal attacks that seek most to defame someone so badly that they shut up. I have chosen instead to develoop a thick skin. But it is not thick enough to withstand a charge of treason.