Take back my rather harsh comments: Javed Akhtar tweets after Sehwag's clarification about Gurmehar

It seems like the rather unseemly fight between Javed Akhtar and Virender Sehwag is coming to an end. After Sehwag issued clarification on Wednesday that he was being facetious and does not condone the threat of violence and rape threats against Delhi University student and Kargil martyr's daughter Gurmehar Kaur, Javed Akhtar too has now mellowed down. 

He tweeted on Thursday evening saying,

Since Sehwag undoubtedly a great player has clarified he was just being facetious n is not anti Gurmehar I take back my rather harsh words.

— Javed Akhtar (@Javedakhtarjadu) March 2, 2017

Earlier, the fallout over Gurmehar Kaur’s placard reached new levels with politicians, cricketers, actors and even wrestlers getting involved. While Hooda and Virender Sehwag joked about her placard, Javed Akhtar took umbrage at their comments. Javed Akhtar hit out her detractors. "If a hardly literate player or a wrestler troll a pacifist daughter of a martyr it's understandable but what's wrong with some educated folks," Akhtar tweeted.

Reacting to Javed Akhtar’s dig about being a ‘hardly literate player’ wrester, Yogeshwar Dutt had said: “You’ve written poems and stories. I’ve also done some small things, like making history for India on an international stage.”

Meanwhile, Mahavir Phogat wasn’t too happy with Javed Akhtar’s tweet either. An obviously emotional Phogat wrote on Twitter, “I spent a lifetime trying to win medals for this country, and they didn’t spare a moment to call me illiterate. There’s no man more knowledgeable than the one who has dedicated his life to the nation. Jai Hind."