Twitter Lied: Barkha Dutt on ‘Brahminical Patriachy’ Poster Row

Barkha Dutt speaks up on the Twitter Controversy and gives us an entire account of what transpired last week.

Senior journalist Barkha Dutt condemned Twitter India on Tuesday night for the “lies” and “poor handling” of the “interaction’’ at Twitter’s roundtable meet that led to an online backlash, cornering social media giant Jack Dorsey for posing with a controversial poster.

A photograph, with Twitter CEO Dorsey in it, was tweeted out by journalist Anna MM Vetticad on Sunday where he is seen with a poster in his hand that reads, “Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’’.

Dorsey’s decision to pose with the said poster in tow, at a roundtable discussion with Indian women journalists and activists, has landed him in hot soup by virtue of the arguably sensitive social issues attached to what the poster implies.