India, Sept. 29 -- Swiggy showed up with steaming plates of idli at Shashi Tharoor's house after the Congress MP shared a post defending the South Indian delicacy. Like all his other posts, this one too was eloquent in language and elaborate in its praise of the Indian rice cakes.

In his post, Tharoor compared idli to an MF Husain painting, a Beethoven symphony, a Tagore sangeet, or a Sachin Tendulkar century. He was responding to an X user who claimed that idlis taste like "steamed regret".

"Poor soul has clearly never had a good one. A truly great idli is a cloud, a whisper, a perfect dream of the perfectibility of human civilisation," the Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala replied.

He did not stop there. In his post praisin...