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Nirmala Sitharaman shuts down man who called her 'sweetie' on Twitter over 'misquoting' Swami Vivekananda

Last Updated 14 January 2020, 14:52 IST

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman shut down a man on Twitter who, in an effort to correct a simple 'misquote' of Swami Vivekananda, called her 'sweetie'.

Sitharaman was celebrating the birthday of Swami Vivekananda, the 19th-century Hindu mystic who is credited with the proliferation of Yoga to the West, with the quote: "Awake, arise, and dream no more! This is the land of dreams, where Karma. Weaves unthreaded garlands with our thoughts...Be bold, and face. The Truth! Be one with it! Let visions cease."

But one man felt the need to fix an 'error' in the quote, and went just a shade too far, calling her 'sweetie'. Sanjay Ghose, whose Twitter bio describes him as a 'struggling lawyer', said: "quotes from the Katha Upanishad & Swamiji’s adoption of the saying “arise awake”. Sweetie its “cease not until your goal is reached” not “dream no more”; unless it’s Budget 2020 that you are warning us about! " in a reply to the tweet.

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(Published 14 January 2020, 14:39 IST)

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