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Rohan Venkataramakrishnan View photos Twitter humour can sometimes open a can of worms. Especially if you are a famous cricketer with more than eight million followers. Virender Sehwag, former batsman for the Indian men’s cricket team, on Sunday chose to mock the 20-year-old daughter of a soldier who died in Kargil because of her campaign against student violence. ‘I didn’t score two triple centuries,’ says the placard on Sehwag’s joke post. ‘My bat did.’ The text is a direct response to 20-year-old  Gurmehar Kaur’s campaign  against the right-wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s  violence  at Ramjas College in Delhi. Kaur had changed her profile picture to include #StudentsAgainstABVP, but the popularity of her campaign also led viewers to a silent video she had made last year, calling for an end to state-sponsored conflict from India and Pakistan. “Pakistan did not kill my dad, war killed him,” sh...