It started with a column in the Wall Street Journal by Aatish Taseer which led to a bit of an exchange on Twitter between some Indians, including Shashi Tharoor, former Indian minister of state for external affairs and the Lok Sabha MP for Thiruvananthapuram on one side, and some Pakistanis, including Ejaz Haider, a prominent editor in Pakistan, on the other. The banter on Twitter soon spilled over to op-eds in newspapers. Responding to Tharoor’s column Delusional liberals (Deccan Herald July 21,2011), Ejaz Haider, one of those so described as a delusional Pakistani liberal, wrote: