New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and author-actor Suhel Seth are indulging in a pun-filled war of words on X.
It all started with Seth posting a picture of himself in front of Oxford University on X, tagging Tharoor and calling it the place where the Congress MP’s ‘sole mate, the Oxford Dictionary’, was created.
Tharoor, known for unleashing his expansive repertoire when it comes to vocabulary, clapped back saying: ‘If the Oxford English Dictionary is my ‘sole mate,’ then I suppose I walk in well-defined shoes’. This was followed by more digs at Seth, with the Congress MP saying that ‘being wedded to the dictionary beats being shackled to clichés’, and ‘at least my ‘sole mate’ knows the difference between ‘disinterested’ and ‘uninterested”.
It didn’t end there. Seth has hit back. ‘May the soles on your feet help you navigate people and parties and may you encounter souls who will be enriched by your intellect and find succour from your soul,’ he quipped.
Dear @Suhelseth, if the Oxford English Dictionary is my ‘sole mate,’ then I suppose I walk in well-defined shoes. Better that than barefoot in banality! So I’m guilty as charged. And if you meant the OED is my ‘sole’ mate, I must say being wedded to the dictionary beats being… https://t.co/jSyu4eRKU3
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) September 25, 2025
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