Zee's Subhash Chandra gets trolled for expecting Coldplay fans to be sanskari

Maybe not the atrocious new Rs 2,000 note, but UNESCO should declare Indian making foot-in-mouth statements as best in the world, because we truly excel at that. Getting offended at random things is the ultimate Indian hobby and no one indulges in that better than Indian politicians and neighbourhood oldies.

The latest one, in a longer-than-ATM-queues series of idiotic statements, comes from Dr Subhash Chandra, the chairman of the Essel Group and an MP in the Rajya Sabha. In an unsurprising attack on the youth’s levels of sanskaar, Dr Chandra expressed his lament over youngsters smoking, drinking, dancing and generally having a good time at the Coldplay gig that you couldn’t attend because you are, like the most of us, too broke. Also maybe because Coldplay is a little overrated, but that a different rant for a different time.

I was saddened to see our youth smoking, drinking wine & dancing in COLDPLAY my question do they also know Rabinder Sangeet & other cultural

— Dr. Subhash Chandra (@subhashchandra) November 20, 2016

Aspects & Indian art forms? It's high time we make our own cultural heritage COOL for our youth which is better than Coldplay

— Dr. Subhash Chandra (@subhashchandra) November 20, 2016

Let us not forget, that this is the same person who is of the opinion that anyone who is inconvenienced by demonetisation is obviously a hoarder of black money.

Before we get to the part where people figuratively destroyed his tweets, let us just examine in brief, what this man is trying to say.

1) Oh my god, how can you smoke!

The only merit to this complaint is that it is unhealthy and that in a crowded place where thousands of inebriated people are dancing, it can be a potential fire hazard. But more often than not, at gigs this big, they confiscate your cigarettes and lighters and matchboxes at the entrance. Even the ones who manage to evade this are thwarted by the scores of guards and ushers keeping an eye on the unruly youth.

2) Oh my god, you are drinking wine?

Who drinks wine at concerts? Have South Bombay people reached that level of hipster? God, I hope not. Also, sir, I hope you realize that alcohol is sold legally at concerts and gigs like these. No one procures them illegally and mostly it is too expensive for anyone to get too wasted. And what, pray tell me, is the point of attending a gig like Coldplay sober?

3) You can dance to Coldplay, but not to 'Rabinder' Sangeet?

No. That’s all the explanation anyone owes to an idiotic question like this. The fact is, being a judgemental old man is the easiest job in India. All you have to do is say that the generation today is wasted all thanks to westernisation, and you are done for the day. From judging hand-holding couples, to judging women smokers to judging anything that remotely goes against your arbitrary idea of the Indian culture, you sir, are what is holding together the fraying fabric of the Indian tradition.

Also, Rabinder? Really? While I completely understand that a pronunciations of Hindu names differ across the country, but Rabinder makes Mr Tagore sound like a Honey Singh fanboy. 

All rants, apart though, the Twitter audience did a brilliant job of making sure that this sanctimonious statement got all what it deserved.

This cultural validation

And a sneak attack 

Incensed inference

Rabinder, er... 

This prefect rebuttal

This unexpected blow

Poetic licence

Oscar for grudge-holding

One would assume that after getting this appreciative a respose, people might stop speaking twice before thinking, but that is some whole other level of wishful thinking.

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