Reacting to cricketer-turned-commentator Aakash Chopra's remark that he was "washing his hands in flowing Ganga" by criticising India head coach Gautam Gambhir, Manoj Tiwary said, "I had not been following what people said." "I just said what I felt in the interview," he stated. Manoj had called Gambhir "hypocrite" after India's 1-3 loss in Test series against Australia.