India is a vast and wonderful country how can anyone doubt that? But it also seems to be a trifle odd these days. Probably because we now know much more about it than we should, or we used to in the days before we were so well connected. Like, do we need to know that Union minister Nitin Gadkari uses his own urine, stored in a 50-litre can, to water his orange trees? This is perhaps only significant to those who regularly get oranges as gifts from the ministerji or even to those who buy them. The rest of us could have been spared the image. Anyway, since I found out about it, I thought it’s best to spread it around and taint everyone’s morning with a good dose of wonderful waste matter.

Activists of BJP Mahila Morcha burn an effigy of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas (who is currently embroiled in a scandal over an alleged extra-marital affair) during a protest at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence in New Delhi on Tuesday.  Pic/PTI