India, Sept. 12 -- The brand new car, Mahindra Thar Roxx, which recently rolled out of the showroom (window; quite literally!) in east Delhi's Nirman Vihar is one miraculous escape that the internet just can't stop talking about. But alongside all the chatter and chit-chat on how a woman was behind the wheels comes the survivor's truth that it was actually not the case.

"I was not driving, my husband was," says Maani Pawar, 29, a make-up artist by profession. However, she couldn't escape the barrage of sexist memes that followed, blaming the "female" driver for the car's fall.

Indirapuram-based Maani went along with her husband, Pradeep to the showroom to get the car on her birthday, September 8. While performing a traditional ritual, t...