These Shashi Tharoor Memes Are Viral. He Picked His 3 Favourites

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor inadvertently started a meme fest on Twitter last week when he shared a few pictures from his Onam celebrations. He then picked his three favourites from the dozens of memes that flooded the microblogging platform. The memes show Shashi Tharoor Photoshopped into a variety of different scenarios - from dance performances to boxing rings.

In one of the pictures he shared on Twitter this Saturday, Shashi Tharoor, dressed in a yellow kurta and white mundu, can be seen smashing a ritual coconut at a Kerala temple. The picture quickly received the Bernie Sanders treatment on Twitter, with people Photoshopping the Thiruvananthapuram MP into a succession of increasingly bizarre scenarios. 

"There are many of these memes going around using the pic of me ritually smashing a coconut," Mr Tharoor wrote this afternoon while responding to one such meme, in which the Congress leader has been Photoshopped into a boxing ring. 

"I don't know who dreams them up by they are often very funny. This one is one of my favourites," he added, sharing a meme in which the parliamentarian's photo had been superimposed onto a cricket pitch.

There are many of these memes going around using the pic of me ritually smashing a coconut. I don't know who dreams them up by they are often very funny. This one is one of my favourites: pic.twitter.com/yGk0LWz1TR

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) August 25, 2021

Another meme that caught Shashi Tharoor's eye shows him pouring tea.

This one too! pic.twitter.com/E20pEkcFC5

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) August 25, 2021

And finally, he picked one where he was transported onstage in the middle of a dance performance.

And this! pic.twitter.com/3CnxEvyMAU

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) August 25, 2021

Here's a look at some of the Shashi Tharoor memes that have surfaced on Twitter:

edo koddigaa nee nundi inspiration pic.twitter.com/XDNvjqvIYu

— Jitendra (@hydbadshah) August 23, 2021

Trivandrum MP @ShashiTharoor smashed a coconut and it triggered a meme fest pic.twitter.com/M4NmFnRMeb

— TrivandrumLife (@TrivandrumL) August 25, 2021

Shashi Tharoor catapulting gargantuan and unprecedented word in an unornamented English sentence: pic.twitter.com/jZ26dC5Pmj

— hello from the other syed (@theothersyed) August 25, 2021

And this ???????? pic.twitter.com/9uEPxal5S1

— Prakashblr (@Prakash2007) August 25, 2021

While Onam is held over 10 days, the main festival was celebrated over three days from August 21 to 23. Mr Tharoor had earlier also posted a video of him participating in swing tradition as part of the harvest festival.