Aiyo swamy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

True Viswa during the time of Apartheid regime in south Africa I kndew people who denounced racial differences based on colour but insisted on fair grooms and brides for their family members. What consenting people do in their private speaces should raise o one's hackles. I believe gay people must have their space in the society. As for politicians years of being a journalist has bred deep rooted cynicism about them in me.

 

Scorpio, I wonder whether he did that to get some publicity. Of late he has been ignored even in his own party . No party or governmental posts. So it was probably something to satay in limelight. Also may be a minor gaffe like that he might have thought, would make him more endearing.

 

Malathi thanks. I am sure Arnab wouldn't have missed such a golden opportunity to blabber.

 

Meena south Indians i born and reared in the south but in the north of India for a living often speak a kind of Hindi dubbed by my dad as "Hyena Hindi" It was christened thus because they tend to pronounce the phrase woh hai na (He/she is there roughly) as woh hyena. Why blame only them? A German lady, a friend of m,ine married to an Indian, who is so good with Hindi that she had helped with her daughter's school lessons instead of her husband who was a bit more Hindi challenged, couldn't pronounce the letter J like most Germans As a result the J sound in Hindi became ch sound.. So instead of bhejna (to send) she always used to say "Bechna (to sell), with hilarious results. Once she said Beti ko Dhukan ko bechna hai (I must sell the daughter to the shop ) while she wanted to say the daughter must go to the shop. We had a tough time controlling our laughter.

I get a sneaking suspicion that SS did it to get public attention for which he is always desperate.