{"id":123222,"date":"2022-07-21T16:18:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T10:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=123222"},"modified":"2022-07-22T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:03:46","slug":"sudhir-chaudhary-misquoted-mark-twain-on-a-new-show-on-aaj-tak-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/sudhir-chaudhary-misquoted-mark-twain-on-a-new-show-on-aaj-tak-black-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudhir Chaudhary on his new show on Aaj Tak featured a quote often falsely credited to Mark Twain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago, journalist and news anchor Sudhir Chaudhary <\/span>announced his resignation<\/span><\/a> from his post as CEO of Zee Media to start his own venture. Following this, it was revealed that he had joined the Hindi news channel Aaj Tak, which is part of the India Today Group. <\/span><\/p>\n

On July 19<\/a> Chaudhary’s <\/span>new show<\/a> ‘Black & White’<\/span> premiered <\/span>on Aaj Tak. In the first episode of the show, the anchor, while referring to a rumour that was circulated regarding the Agneepath scheme, mentioned a quote attributing it to American writer and humorist Mark Twain. He featured the following statement, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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The official Twitter handle of Aaj Tak also tweeted<\/a> the clip of the show along with the quote. Prior to Sudhir’s show, on July 9, a video uploaded on the official Instagram page of Aaj Tak also features this phrase. The adage is attributed to Mark Twain in this video as well.<\/p>\n

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It is worth noting that the phrase has been attributed to different individuals from time to time.<\/span> Below we have added several tweets that have credited Mark Twain or Winston Churchill for the quote. This includes former American football player Colin Kaepernick<\/a>, journalist Arpit Sharma<\/a> of Dainik Bhaskar, the Twitter handle of Bihar Congress<\/a>, Umashankar Singh<\/a> of NDTV and the Twitter handle Hindi Panktiyan<\/a>.<\/p>\n