Many of us Delhi-wallas are okay with our chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, calling our prime minister, Narendra Modi, names. Many Bombay aunties are not, and they’re right, it was in bad taste (even if those names were technically correct). No matter. When have we Delhi-wallas worried about propriety? Also, like Kejriwal we believe ‘offense is the best defense’, and thus his actions have unleashed the inner Delhi-walla in all of us. Well, it was already unleashed in the only Bollywood Khan brought up and raised in Delhi: Shah Rukh Khan. When recently confronted by taunts by cowards-and-psychopaths over his remarks about growing intolerance in India he told them to “just shut up”; he essentially dared them to show up and face him in person. As is typical with bullies, they hid behind their IP addresses and the din immediately died down.

No favourites: Modi is unlikely to forget either the walloping in the Delhi Assembly elections he got at the hands of Kejriwal, or the thrashing that that Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad gave him in Bihar. File pic