Recently, India’s first engineless train named Vande Bharat Express also known as Train 18 took its first trip. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated this train in Delhi, which began its journey with many journalists and railway officials on board. However, the train broke down just a day after it was launched.
The train broke down when it was returning from Varanasi approx 200 km away from the national capital. The train was brought back to Delhi and it was moving at 40 Km per hour because it was unable to run at its usual speed. After getting some necessary repairing done, the train resumed its journey once again.
There were no signs of the train being damaged from outside. That’s why officials at railways are claiming that the breakdown must have been due to train being hit by some cattle. However, popular news network BBC decided to make fun of the train, when they shared a sarcastic tweet.
This Is What BBC Tweeted:
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1096722475373731840
This tweet has not gone down well with many Indians including Anand Mahindra, who gave BBC a reply they’ll never forget. Look at what he tweeted:
An emoji! Really @BBCWorld ? Do you think you could have done a better job disguising your glee? The good thing is that it’s this kind of attitude that makes us determined to do even better… https://t.co/KQ9DLbXImk
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) February 16, 2019
Anand Mahindra’s reply has been able to impress netizens, who are praising him for giving a perfect reply to the popular news channel that was pretty happy using an emoji to express how shock they were after India’s first high-speed train broke down.
This Is How Netizens Reacted:
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https://twitter.com/RavishankarNa17/status/1096807317000126464
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— AK (@alok310777) February 16, 2019
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well put….and will add:
….and to ignore BBC even more!
— Amit Paranjape (@aparanjape) February 16, 2019
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https://twitter.com/Iam_2ic/status/1096800831679021056
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BBC must be thanking Americans for giving them atleast emoji..
Else UK can’t even make cars, forget trains…https://t.co/Z9FisQDCKf
— Hemant Prasad (@prasadhemant) February 16, 2019
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Actually, it's probably some social media intern managing the account who thought s/he was being *kewl*.
— Ashok Lalla (@ashoklalla) February 16, 2019
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https://twitter.com/kbad10/status/1096800425120980992
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https://twitter.com/ragarwal/status/1096809425271177217
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https://twitter.com/kailashwg/status/1096979362811916293
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Fantastic response Mr. Mahindra!
— HumourousGuy (@searching27X04) February 16, 2019
What do you think?
