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.
Another meme that caught Shashi Tharoor's eye shows him pouring tea.
And finally, he picked one where he was transported onstage in the middle of a dance performance.
Here's a look at some of the Shashi Tharoor memes that have surfaced on Twitter:
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.
