"The joke is not on Modi. The joke is on the "educated" elite/middle class supporters of Modi who have made idiocy and ignorance fashionable."
— Narendra Modi

January 1, 1970

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Nissim Mannathukkaren, on Modi's claim that he was likely the first person to sent digital colour pictures as an email attachment in in India in the late 1980s. Twitter post, 13 May 2019. Quoted in Why the joke is not on Modi but on his 'educated supporters' by K.M. Rakesh And G.S. Mudur, published online in 14 May 2019, The Telegraph, the article was soon cited in 'No laughing matter': India’s Modi mocked for tech gaffes by the , 13 May 2019, '