THE decision of the external affairs ministry to issue an official statement in response to tweets by American singer Rihanna and Swedish social activist Greta Thunberg, has created quite a stir. Some senior Indian diplomats have taken the view that the Indian government should not have officially responded to social media tweets, while the supporters of the Narendra Modi government are elated that the government has put these Western upstarts in their place. The government has argued that it finds Twitter’s ‘toolkit’ an incendiary device that enables mobilization of civil society against the State. It wants. . .