Actress Janhvi Kapoor, who is frequently the target of trolls, is currently facing backlash over a recent comment she made while promoting her next movie Good Luck Jerry.
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When Janhvi said that arithmetic could cause one to become "retarded" in an interview with Curly Tales, netizens immediately criticised her claim.
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When discussing her least favourite subject as a student, she stated, "I fail to see the purpose. Itna kyun maine sar toda calculator invent ke baad aaj tak maine algebra ka istemaal kiya hi nahi hai (I never used algebra since the invention of calculators, so why did I need to study it so hard). Why did it matter? On the other side, history and literature help you become a sophisticated person. I believe that math simply retards you." (Video)
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Reacting to her comment, a social media user tweeted, "Reminds me of Kevin from The Office US. The man could do math when pies were involved but not without them. Similarly, she can probably do math when money or calories are involved but finds it retarded otherwise."
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"She could have just said I liked history literature more than maths. But no she had to say 'cultured human' thing. So all doctors engineers or people working in marketing finance or human resources are not cultured because they didn't have literature and history as their core subjects," tweeted another netizen.