In a scandal-hungry society, yesterday’s tasty gossip becomes cold, greasy and unpalatable faster than last night’s vada pao. Anyone remember RTI activist Anjali Damania and her accusations against BJP president Nitin Gadkari? When was that? Last century? Last decade? Last year? Month? Who knows and who cares.

The flavour for now is mango with a kick of banana. Robert Vadra’s cosy relationship with real estate giant DLF is bad enough and then he goes and makes a joke about the “aam aadmi”? A pun no less and calls them “mango men in a banana republic”? Shocking and disrespectful to mangoes, men, republics, bananas, puns, aliens, buildings, land, loans, companies, friends, family, in-laws, loved ones, parties… have I left out anything? Luckily PeTA is not concerned about the ethical treatment of fruits or they would have jumped in by now.