'Chhapri'- The skin of his colour is a big reason why Hardik receives this 'slur'.

SPORTS INS- Hardik Pandya faced the heat in his first match as the Mumbai Indians (MI) captain, a couple of days back, in IPL 2024. The Ahmedabad crowd ensured Hardik had a tough time focussing on the game as they booed him throughout the match. They had felt betrayed by former Gujarat Titans (GT) captain's decision to leave the franchise and shift base to Mumbai. He continues to be trolled and hated on social media and gets called many things on the internet. 
Sportspersons understand the emotions of the fans and there have been cricketers' effigies burnt and slogans raised everywhere against players in the past. But what Hardik is seeing is unprecedented. In IPL, one has never seen this level of hate for Hardik from all corners. At the toss of MI vs GT, Ahmedabad crowd booed Hardik and social media continued to pass various slurs on him. While no on deserves being called with any kind of slurs, one particular slur is even more pathetic, both to Hardik and a caste-based community. It is the term 'Chhapri'. You must have seen it on social media that Hardik is called 'Chhapri'. Not just him, anyone who dresses in a flashy clothes, has a funky hairdo, to make himself stand out from the others, is called a 'Chhapri'. Maybe you have used the term too, at some point of time, to make fun of your friend's dressing sense or a hairstyle. Hardik, who likes to dress up in expensive clothes, wear gold chains, costly watches et al, gets called 'Chhapri' too on social media on a regular basis. The skin of his colour is a big reason why Hardik receives this 'slur'.