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Mumbai: Renowned poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar, who earlier criticised former cricketer Virender Sehwag for his comments on Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur, has called him a “great player” and said he was retracting his harsh comments.<\/p>\n
Gurmehar is in the eye of a storm over her stance against student outfit Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).<\/p>\n
“Since Sehwag undoubtedly a great player has clarified he was just being facetious and is not anti-Gurmehar, I take back my rather harsh words,” Akhtar posted on Twitter on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Akhtar earlier called Sehwag “a hardly literate player” indirectly after the cricketer trolled Gurmehar.<\/p>\n
Kaur, a student of Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College, had posted on Facebook a photograph of herself holding a placard that read: “I am a student from Delhi University. I am not afraid of ABVP. I am not alone. Every student of India is with me”, following last week’s violence in Ramjas College in Delhi University.<\/p>\n
The post went viral online. She also held a poster, saying ‘Pakistan did not kill my dad, war killed him’.<\/p>\n
Following this, Sehwag on February 26 posted his image holding a placard which read: “I did not score two triple centuries, my bat did,” and said: “Bat me hai Dum! Bharat Jaisi Jagah Nahi (Bat has power! no place like India).”<\/p>\n
Akhtar didn’t seem to have liked Sehwag’s post and tweeted: “If a hardly literate player or a wrestler troll a pacifist daughter of a martyr it’s understandable but what’s wrong with some educated folks.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mumbai: Renowned poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar, who earlier criticised former cricketer Virender Sehwag for his comments on Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur, has called him a “great player” and said he was retracting his harsh comments.<\/p>\n
Gurmehar is in the eye of a storm over her stance against student outfit Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).<\/p>\n
“Since Sehwag undoubtedly a great player has clarified he was just being facetious and is not anti-Gurmehar, I take back my rather harsh words,” Akhtar posted on Twitter on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[4744,21596,466,5135,557],"class_list":["post-33782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-gurmehar-kaur","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-javed-akhtar","tag-virender-sehwag"],"yoast_head":"\n