Posting Picture of Buddha On Mahavir Jayanti, The Shashi Tharoor Way

While Tharoor first defended his choice of the picture but later accepted the mistake without deleting the tweet.

कभी ख़ुशी कभी ग़म.... Ttypos yesterday, Mahavira today.... Will take a breakhttps://t.co/k9XqfE8o1y

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) March 29, 2018

He was not the only one who went wrong. There were others as well.

सक्सेस मंत्रः भगवान महावीर ने बताया था सफलता पाने का रास्ताhttps://t.co/Oyh4zVAT8T#Successmantra#SuccessStories #MahavirJayanti

— Hindustan (@Live_Hindustan) March 29, 2018

Since it seems our media has found nothing more newsworthy than my innocent mistake, do see how Mahavira is depicted by all these mainstream publications!https://t.co/bBQUYBADDK https://t.co/NOSKPdwKuQ https://t.co/a7zlMqimZyhttps://t.co/1nNUJq9H0mhttps://t.co/CkfJJOYqj6

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) March 29, 2018

But trust Tharoor to turn a bad day into an opportunity. Tharoor tagged news websites who had made the same mistake of using the picture of Buddha for Mahavir Jayanti.

Mahavir Jayanti

Mahavir Jayanti is celebration of the Lord Mahavir's birthday. According to the Jain texts as reported by The Indian Express, Lord Mahavir was born on the thirteenth day of the bright half of the moon in the month of Chaitra in the year 599 BCE. The festival is celebrated in the memory of the last spiritual teacher of the religion. The idol of Mahavira is carried in a procession called Rath Yatra.