Even as you read this, Shobhaa De is getting trolled for an insensitive tweet. Of late, the columnist's barbs seem way off the mark and, not surprisingly, she is receiving a dose of terrific comebacks.

Perhaps in an attempt to appear witty, De dug her talons into the Mumbai police. She zeroed in on a picture doing the rounds on social media of an overweight uniformed police personnel, and captioned it, "Heavy police bandobast in Mumbai today". The emphasis was, of course, on the word "heavy". Mumbai police wasted no time in reacting to the unwarranted post and clarified that the photo, which had been doing the rounds for months, was one of the countless hoaxes floating on social media platforms.