Curious case of @KamaalRKhan

I have a twitter account. Its timeline has a lot of natter and chatter. This interface is a social connector of people flung far across geographic spaces and across social hierarchies

Curious case of @KamaalRKhan

I have a twitter account. Its timeline has a lot of natter and chatter. This interface is a social connector of people flung far across geographic spaces and across social hierarchies. Where else can you send a
message to a playboy tycoon like @TheVijayMallya oru00a0celebrity public servant and all around generally erudite person like @ShashiTharoor and actually get a reply. How thrilling!

A couple of weeks ago, retweets or RTs (reposting of another's update) from @KamaalRKhan (KRK) started showing up on my timeline. Mostly the purpose of the RTs was to mock KRK. Their jabs ranged from his command over the English language to his persona. You name it and they make fun of it. I stop short of calling it cyber bullying because the mockers are powerless marginal humans. While all this was happening another set of tweets began to appear. This time they lamented that KRK had blocked them.

This man was not born to a rich family nor had any middle class education. He simply worked hard to make his mark

As you guess, this constant mention of @KamaalRKhan made me curious. Curious enough to read his tweets, curious enough to google his name and if that wasn't enough I even looked him up on youtube. Apparently he had made and starred in a film called Deshdroh. I became intrigued and started to follow him. Now I even reply to his tweets sometimes and get an answer back. Perhaps I'm attempting to equalise the negative comments he gets by sending him some positive ones.

But soon my comments & KRK's replies were being retweeted. Never have I gotten more RTs or mentions on twitter by random people as my comments to KRK. All this makes me wonder ufffd has he committed some fraud or lied that we feel the need to grind him down so much? Or, is it our bereft human nature to cut others down just to make ourselves feel superior?

I'm now beginning to see KRK as an underdog. This guy worked hard, took chances and made a bunch of money in the export business. It takes a lot of strength and will-power to stand against the wind and pursue your dream. This man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth nor did he have some middle class education, whose purpose I am beginning to believe is primarily to create a false sense of status in us. He simply worked hard. He may not be the next big thing in Bollywood, but then again he just might.

My sentiment cannot be conveyed any better than what artist Javed Akhtar said to him when he accepted KRK's apology: "I respect you for having the moral courage to accept that you were wrong. It is a rare
quality. Good luck to you."

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