There is delicious irony in the fact that on the one hand it was a former maharaja who recently ordered an end to the ‘lal-batti’ (red light atop a car) VIP culture while it was a small town college lecturer who hit the headlines by throwing his political weight around, slapping an airline employee with impunity to make the point that he is a VIP — a Very Important Person. There is nothing surprising about this paradox.
India’s feudals have long learnt to adapt themselves to life in a democratic republic. In. . .
