Dragging my late wife Sunanda was unwarranted, contemptible: Tharoor responds to Vivek Agnihotri, Anupam Kher's tweets

After a war of words with Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri on Twitter about The Kashmir Files movie Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said that he never mocked or disparage the sufferings of Kashmiri Pandits and added that dragging his late wife Sunanda into this matter was unwarranted and contemptibleThe row started after Tharoor shared a media report on the microblogging site stating that the film The Kashmir Files has been banned in SingaporeFilm promoted by Indias ruling party KashmirFiles banned in Singapore the Congress MP tweetedMy statement in response to assorted comments on my tweet httpstco7jlJDu6ZSc pictwittercomouZEQWoGS4mdash Shashi Tharoor ShashiTharoor May 10 2022Reacting to Tharoors tweet Agnihotri said Singapore is the most regressive censor in the world and asked him to stop making fun of the Kashmiri Hindu genocideDear fopdoodle gnashnab ShashiTharoor FYI Singapore is most regressive censor in the world It even banned The Last Temptations of Jesus Christ ask your madam Even a romantic film called TheLeelaHotelFiles will be banned Pl stop making fun of Kashmiri Hindu Genocide the filmmaker tweetedTargeting the Member of Parliament further Agnihotri asked to him delete the tweet if his wife Sunanda Pushkar was a Kashmiri HinduHey ShashiTharoor Is this true that Late Sunanda Pushkar was a Kashmiri Hindu Is the enclosed SS true If yes then in Hindu tradition to respect the dead you must delete your tweet and apologise to her soul The Kashmir Files director tweetedVeteran actor Anupam Kher who played a crucial role in The Kashmir Files also joined Agnihotri to attack Tharoor saying that he should show some sensitivity towards Kashmiri Pandits for Sunandas sake who was a Kashmiri herselfDear ShashiTharoor Your callousness towards KashmiriHindus genocide is tragic If nothing else at least for Sunandas sake who was a Kashmiri herself you should show some sensitivity towards KashmiriPandits amp not feel victorious about a country banning TheKashmirFiles Anupam Kher tweetedAfter her late wife Sunanda was dragged into the controversy Tharoor said he has never seen the movie and has not made any comment on its contents He pointed out that he has repeatedly drawn attention to the plight of Kashmiri pandits over the yearsI tweeted a factual news item this morning with no comment on its contents or on the film The Kashmir Files which I have not seen At no point did I mock or disparage the sufferings of Kashmiri Pandits of whose plight I am intimately aware and to which I have repeatedly drawn attention over the years the Congress MP said in a statement on TwitterDragging my late wife Sunanda into this matter was unwarranted and contemptible No one is more aware of her views than I am I have accompanied her to the destroyed ruins of her ancestral home in Bomai near Sopore and joined her in conversations with her Kashmiri neighbours and friends both Muslim and Hindu One thing I know unlike those attempting to exploit her when she is not around to speak for herself She believed in reconciliation not hatePushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in New Delhi on the night of January 17 2014The Kashmir Files on the life of Kashmiri pandits during the 1990 Kashmir insurgency is based on firstgeneration video interviews of victims of the Kashmiri massacre making an account of their pain suffering struggle and traumaThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever