It was just another happy weekend when Mrs. Funnybones aka Twinkle Khanna decided to crack a joke about Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. The Art Of Living founder had said some time ago that Malala Yousafzai did not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize:
Nowadays there is no value to the Nobel prize. When you award it to a 16-year-old girl who hasn’t done anything, what value is left? It has become a political joke.
So Twinkle tweeted:
Sri Sri got his nobel foot and half beard stuck in his mouth in a yogic pose that Baba Ramdev perfected a while ago #HolyMenAndHairyTales
And in no time, Sri Sri’s million followers (yup, the ones who are taught peace) got furious over her tweet and started trolling her.
Even the International Director of the foundation Darshak Hathi tweeted to her saying:
Millions of followers r going 2 boycott #Houseful3 4 hurting the sentiments by inappropriate and ill intended comments f @mrsfunnybones on Sri Sri.
Like, really?
Twinkle then deleted her tweet and apologized for it:
Didn’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings was meant to be a joke and am old enough to accept an error of judgement on my part.
— Twinkle Khanna (@mrsfunnybones) May 7, 2016
But proved her point like a boss!
Art of living teacher practising Art of intimidation? Didn’t like my joke diss me-drag my husband,boycott etc #Shame https://t.co/yFdz8bKHJo
— Twinkle Khanna (@mrsfunnybones) May 8, 2016
@mrsfunnybones My tweet was in respond to your tweet which has hurt my sentiments. I appreciate that you have gracefully deleted it.
— Darshak Hathi (@DarshakHathi) May 8, 2016
@DarshakHathi I have a snapshot of what you said after i apologised and deleted my joke ‘Fear of Boycott Housefull3’ is this art of living?
— Twinkle Khanna (@mrsfunnybones) May 8, 2016
Fortunately, the actress received support on Twitter:
. @mrsfunnybones but why did u even apologize to these #AOL goons, disappointed. U made a joke & shd stand ur ground. @DarshakHathi
— Suryanarayan Ganesh (@gsurya) May 8, 2016
Disgusting mob behaviour by the art of living followers making @mrsfunnybones delete her joke on a man who deserves more such jokes
— Suparn Verma (@Suparn) May 8, 2016
@mrsfunnybones I guess even if you are twice the man you can’t take on a woman! #srisri #MrMr https://t.co/MzV058710K
— radhika vaz (@radvaz) May 8, 2016