Yogeshwar Dutt takes a dig at Javed Akhtar after being called `a hardly literate wrestler`

New Delhi: Famous Indian poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar weighed in on the controversy over 20-year-old Gurmehar Kaur's remarks, slamming Yogeshwar Dutt and Virender Sehwag for her trolls. Yogeshwar, however, take accept the poet's criticism and hit back at him with another tweet.

In his tweet, Akhtar had called the 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medal winner a "hardly literate player, wrestler".

"If a hardly literate player or a wrestler troll a pacifist daughter of a martyr its understandable but whats wrong with some educated folks," Javed Akhtar wrote.

Yogeshwar Dutt, hit back at Akhtar saying he they (he and Virender Sehwag) have also made history for India on world stage.

"Ji, aapne kavita-kahani ki rachna ki to humne bhi kuch karname kr choti hi sahi Bharat ke liye vishwapatal par itihaas racha hai. (You may have authored poems and stories but even we have made history for India on the world stage)."

Sehwag, earlier, broke his silence over the controversy and said that his tweet only meant fun and was not aimed at Gurmehar at all.

"My tweet wasn't intended for Gurmehar. It was plain fun but people construed the other way," he told India Today.

Gurmehar, who is the daughter of martyr Captain Mandeep Singh, took the Internet by storm when she posted a video in May last year where held a placard that read, “Pakistan did not kill my dad, war killed him.” To which, Virender Sehwag had tweeted a meme holdin holding up a similar placard saying, “I didn’t score two triple centuries, my bat did.”