How a classy Manushi Chhillar saved Shashi Tharoor the blushes

In a completely Tharoor-esque manner, Miss World Manushi Chhillar bailed out the Thiruvananthapuram MP who was reeling under the repercussions of an off-colour joke that he made after Chhillar's laudable victory. 

Following Manushi Chhillar's victory at the Miss World 2017 pageant on Saturday, Tharoor had tweeted, "What a mistake to demonetise our currency! BJP should have realised that Indian cash dominates the globe: look, even our Chhillar has become Miss World!"

However, the tweet backfired on Tharoor when Twitterati slammed him for comparing Manushi's surname to 'loose change'.

Even the National Commission of Women (NCW), which was strangely silent on death threats issued against actor Deepika Padukone by fringe groups and one BJP official, said that it would summon the parliamentarian.

In response to a tweet by Times group's Vineet Jain, she tweeted that she was in no way offended by Tharoor's remarks. "A girl who has just won the World isn’t going to be upset over a tongue-in-cheek remark. ‘Chillar’ talk is just small change - let’s not forget the ‘chill’ within Chhillar," she tweeted.

Tharoor reacted to the tweet, "You're a class act, @ManushiChhillar! Beautiful, smart & uncommonly gracious too. Still, if any offence was caused to any member of your family, sincere apologies. Like every Indian, I'm proud of you." 

He had, earlier, issued an apology, saying, "Guess the pun IS the lowest form of humour, & the bilingual pun lower still! Apologies to the many who seem to have been righteously offended by a light-hearted tweet today. Certainly no offence was meant to a bright young girl whose answer i've separately praised. Please: Chill!."