Kolkata, January 17: Jyoti Basu today became a trending topic in micro blogging site ‘twitter.com’ with ‘RIP’ (rest in peace) the most common tweet, including from Minister of State for External Affairs Sashi Tharoor.
“Jyoti Basu, 1914-2010. RIP,” read Tharoor’s tweet.
The tweets followed Basu’s hearse from the AMRI Hospital in Salt Lake, where he fought death valiantly for 17 days, to funeral parlour, Peace Haven, where his embalmed body will be kept till Tuesday.
The tweets ranged from unadulterated hero worship to tongue-in-cheek comments for the charismatic nonagenarian communist leader.
There were tweets like “A rare kind of man,India loses its communist czar’ and ‘End of an era .. Jyoti Basu leaves behind a political legacy most admire and only a few can follow”.
–Agencies