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Shashi Tharoor's tweet once again gets netizens looking up dictionaries

On Wednesday, he retweeted party colleague P Chidambaram's tweet and some of Tharoor's followers immediately reached for their dictionaries to search for the meaning of the word 'schadenfreude'

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor speaks at 'Inspire the Champion in You-2019, in Kolkata, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019
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Congress Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor (pictured) has again got his Twitter followers to riffle through their dictionaries. On Wednesday, he retweeted party colleague P Chidambaram’s tweet of September 24, 2018. Chidambaram had tweeted the link of his interview to a newspaper on the alleged irregularities in the Rafale fighter jet deal where he sought to punch holes in then finance minister Arun Jaitley’s defence of the deal and said, "To a person running scared, every shadow will be a demon". Tharoor fished out the nearly year-old tweet and commented, "Well said P Chidambaram! It is a tribute to your

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