My aunt recently complained to my mother, who is visiting, about Valentine's Day. I silently listened to her mention how youngsters gift each other cards and flowers, and how this day was unknown when they were young, etc, etc.

My silence lasted all of five seconds. I tired of my aunt's propaganda (she is a longtime fan of Sushma Swaraj and her grouse against Modi, who she otherwise admires for being unabashedly anti-Muslim, is that he has repressed Sushma), and suggested a solution: that she campaign to rename Valentine's Day as Kamasutra Diwas. After all the Kamasutra was around when she and my mother were girls.