The chattering classes are all atwitter over political developments in the Aam Aadmi Party which came to power in Delhi a month ago, literally sweeping aside all opposition and winning an unthinkable 67 out of 70 seats. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was the new knight in shining armour, riding a white horse. That armour now looks made of tinsel, the horse an old hag.

The unravelling has been rapid, with an insatiable media scrambling to keep pace with the washing of dirty laundry in full public view by stalwarts of the ‘andolan’, which literally translates into movement but AAP prefers the transliteration, revolution. The ‘revolutionaries’ in the vanguard of the AAP ‘revolution’ appear no more than men and women with feet of clay, a far cry from the ‘Che Guevara’ image they had assiduously cultivated for themselves.