MUMBAI: An Australian rugby team , an American sitcom and the Hindutva ideology rarely find themselves on one platform. A Twitter handle called Brown Brumby (BB) brings them together.While BB recently made it to a magazine list of “140 influential characters on Twitter”, the person behind the profile has chosen anonymity. His followers on Twitter include well-known personalities from an MP to a Supreme Court lawyer, no mean feat for an anonymous Twitter handle. Mumbaikar working in Australia , he calls himself Brown Brumby as he is a brown-skinned fan of a local Australian rugby team called the Brumbies His Twitter name routinely changes to reflect his observations of the BJP. He became BrumbyChalaPakistan when a BJP leader said those who didn’t support Modi should go to Pakistan. The uproar over India’s human resources minister allegedly not having studied beyond Class XII saw his Twitter name change to Brumby12th Pass . The controversy over the imposition of Hindi had him turn into Brumbeshwar , written in Devnagari. He was Brumby Uncensored after a newspaper website pulled down a piece by journalist Rana Ayyub on BJP president Amit Shah’s past.This is possibly the first time an Australian rugby team has had its name modified to reflect an Indian political party.BB’s cover photo is a scene from American sitcom Big Bang Theory , where a character holds a placard that says SARCASM. “That’s for those who miss it on Twitter,” says Brumby in an interview with TOI.Unapologetically liberal and secular, Brown Brumby is credited with playing a significant role in reclaiming social media from the Hindutva trolls that once dominated the landscape.A tweet about him says he “single-handedly turned the tide on SM (social media). It was a one-way street earlier.” Another called him a “troll-slayer”.Battling the right-wing has become the leitmotif running through his tweets, largely because, while growing up, his idea of India was very different from what’s seen on Twitter today. “Hindus and Muslims living together, laughing together, having the same problems,” recalls BB.The strong identity politics prevalent on Twitter had a profound impact on him. “I wanted to do something about it, even if I just tweeted. Something to put out a counterview, to separate the Hindu identity from the Sanghi identity. I use the term Sanghi to show that it’s not Hindus who are doing this but a subset of individuals aligned to a certain ideology which is not really Indian in nature,” says Brumby.When Dinanath Batra’s textbooks were introduced in Gujarat, BB tweeted, “Now Sanghis in Gujarat won’t be restricted to learning bigotry at home. Schools will play an active role in producing high quality bigots.”He has occasionally been accused of being a Congress sympathizer, as his tweets attack BJP more than Congress. “That’s because Congress doesn’t stand for anything. What should I criticize? Although I have strongly criticized the Congress government for the 1984 riots and for failing to do justice toward minorities,” he says. While he believes all parties have played a role in fostering communal tensions, he says that unlike the BJP, educated Congress supporters don’t defend its transgressions, such as the 1984 riots. “So there is no fight.”