During a live interaction with young people on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to take political pot shots at his rivals when a student from Dehradun stood up to talk about an invention that would help people who suffer from Dyslexia.
The forum, called ‘Smart India Hackathon 2019’ was addressing students who were participating in a competition to find technology-driven solutions to deal with issues facing children and women.
Here’s what transpired. The girl said, “We have an idea to help dyslexic children, whose pace of learning and writing is very slow. But they have a high intelligence and creativity level as you have seen in the movie Taare Zameen Par...”
The PM intervened to ask if this program “could work for a 40-50 year old child too.”
What followed was laughter, guffaws and claps from other students. The PM let the joke sink in before following it up with another zinger, “Then that will make the mothers of such children very happy.”