Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> writes:

> Nicolas,
>
>       Thanks for pointing out that the latest version works. I updated org-mode and it seems to be working now.
> I wonder what changed to cause it to work.
>

My guess would be

commit b4af3f0852e9705ddbac66d78cd8a508c547be85
Author: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Date:   Sun Oct 25 19:20:25 2015 +0100

    Allow more characters in emphasis

    * lisp/org.el (org-emphasis-regexp-components): Allow singe quote,
      double quote and comma as the last character in an emphasis string.

    Reported-by: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
    <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/102191>

> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I am currently using:
>
>        Org-mode version 8.3.2 (release_8.3.2-195-gbf9146
>
>     I will try updating and seeing what happens.
>
>     On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
>         Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> writes:
>
>         > I have the following written in an org file:
>         >
>         >       The =\,= allows you to put a Lisp expression there and the =#= is
>         >        the /replace-count/.  Read /*replace-regexp*/ for more information.
>         >
>         > When I render this in HTML I get the following:
>         >
>         >        The \,= allows you to put a Lisp expression there and the =# is the
>         > *replace-count*. Read *replace-regexp* for more information.
>         >
>         > Is this a bug with the parser or am I doing something wrong ?
>
>         FWIW, I cannot reproduce it in development version. You may want to
>         update Org.
>

--
Nick