Book Review | The angst a social media trial can generate
Deccan ChronicleIt is a bit like watching a noir film. How the trolls wrecked the lives of people of one family is proof of how soft targets become helpless in the face of attacks by the anonymous from the ramparts of social media. He had also shared screenshots from social media platform Twitter while saying that he felt bullied by the conduct of the journalist. That is until the player took the issue public on social media and the people piled on this while fellow players, predictably enough, stood by Saha. The lines written about his comeback after the ban and his interaction with BCCI bigwigs as well as Dr Shashi Tharoor, wearing his hat of cricket lover rather than that of a politician and MP, went to show that the game is greater than all the storms in a teacup that are brewed by people around it — cricketers, administrators, media representatives, TV executives, fans.
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