Haldiram’s trends after TV reporter questions staff about “Urdu” text
An incensed TV reporter’s invective over “Urdu” writing on a Haldiram’s snack packet directed at a store manager has started a fierce debate on social media, adding to the siege of the national discourse hijacked by objections to halal meat, the hijab and the Azaan.
“You can do whatever ma’am, Haldiram’s will not entertain such tantrums,” the store manager tells the reporter thrusting a mic and ranting about “Urdu writing” and “betraying Hindus who fast during Navratri”.
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The incident drew widespread condemnation on social media with some suggesting the writing on the packet is Arabic and is there because it is exported to the Middle East while others supplied examples of everything from Indian Railways signages to currency notes using Urdu text.
Here is some Urdu text. Will this reporter go to the Railways and ask what it is about? #Haldirams pic.twitter.com/DGZ8KDUoXv
— Drama Prasad Mukherjee (@DPrasadMJ148) April 5, 2022
