Overview
- Posted on January 14, the Instagram video shows the Congress MP gently swaying to Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ during a brief break in what appears to be a conference room.
- Tharoor captioned the reel, “Somewhere between bilateral meetings at the Speaker’s Conference and the tyranny of my inbox, even a parliamentarian can become a Swiftie. Do the Swifties agree?”
- The on-screen overlay read, “When you have 35,000 unread emails, 5,000 unopened WhatsApp messages and 15 op-eds to write, but the social media girl decides it's content time.”
- Swifties and other users responded enthusiastically, and outlets including India Today and News18 reported the clip as viral, with Times Now citing about 119,700 likes and nearly 1,000 reposts.
- The song is the lead single from Taylor Swift’s 2025 album ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ widely reported as a major chart success that adds cultural resonance to the moment.