And how did that thought cross her mind? According to another tweet of hers, she had read it on Facebook and was only confirming it on Twitter. “My Q went viral!” she exulted. To give Parker credit, it did go viral – and the query, like it often does on Twitter, became an assertion very soon. Who cares for trivialities like punctuation when you can sell a good story. But since one could write Parker off as the fringe, here entered a journalist as mainstream and credible as one could be: Tavleen Singh. Singh, replying to a query on Twitter, lent credence to the rumour by adding an “I think” (for plausible deniability, we assume, so one can always say, What me? I didn’t say so) and repeating the lie. . Also tagged on this tweet was journalist Swapan Dasgupta. Singh’s tweet has got more than 850 retweets as I write this.