“A part of me has gone with virender Sehwag’s retirement”
Those were the sentiments of gautam gambhir on the retirement of his close friend. Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir not only one of India’s most successful opening pairs, but the two are great friends as well. But, on Wednesday, they found themselves on opposite ends of a debate around 20-year-old DU student Gurmehar Kaur.
Sehwag courted controversy last week by taking a dig at Gurmehar Kaur, the daughter of a Kargil war martyr who had recently started a social media campaign against the ABVP. She had posted a silent video of her holding up placards. One of the placards read, “Pakistan did not kill my dad, war did.”
In an apparent dig at her video, Sehwag posted a picture of himself holding a similar placard that read, “I didn’t score two triple centuries, my bat did.”
On Wednesday, Gambhir, too, jumped into a debate with a passionate defense of Kaur’s freedom of expression. “The freedom of expression is absolute and equal for all!”
gambhir said through the video that the recent events have left him with disappointment and we live in a free country where everyone is entitled to their opinion.
