The thing about a handy saying is that everyone wants to claim they have said it first. Narendra Modi seems to be pleased at presenting himself as a modern man when he said India needs toilets not temples. Jairam Ramesh is mad because he had presented the same inversion a year ago and gotten slammed for it by the ever-ready-for-outrage protestors of the Sangh Parivar and people in his own party as well.

Illustration/ Amit Bandre