The class test an in-depth lesson on classes

You would think that Shashi Tharoor, who worked in the United Nations, would have better diplomacy especially when interacting with old fuddy-duddies from backward places like the South Block.

The class test an in-depth lesson on classes

You would think that Shashi Tharoor, who worked in the United Nations, would have better diplomacy especially when interacting with old fuddy-duddies from backward places like the South Block.

But then, who would expect them to be snooping around places like Twitter you'd think they wouldn't yet have graduated from Doordarshan's illuminating programming like 'ek chidiya'.

The poor Tharoor was unfortunately in for a rude shock when they caught him cribbing about having to slum it out with the rest of us mortal plebeians while flying.

Fortunately for him, it wasn't the whining that they cottoned on to but the reference of cattle class that was blown out of proportionu00a0and the meaning completely un-cattled.

So for the sake of Soniaji and her other mandarins, here's a crash class on a couple of classes that they should understand, before they take something pointless and turn it a big brouhaha louder than a JD(S) rally.

Cattle Class: No Sonia, this does not belittle any sect of your faithful voters. It doesn't refer to Hinduism, it doesn't put down holy animals and no, it does not refer to the people actually sitting in economy class (and yes, we do know that you travelled economy for the first time in your life but never fear, nobody is calling you a cow), but the fact that all us downscaling execs are herded into the back of the aircraft. It does feel like a cattle pen but then your RJD ex-allies should be used to that what are they cursing about?

Gandhi Class: Once again, nothing that refers to you personally, Madame Sonia. Unlike the Gandhi Mandapam in Madras, the Gandhinagar in Bangalore, the Gandhi Center for Tribal Research in Mizoram, the Gandhi Center for Aeronautical Engineering in Mumbai and so on and so Gandhi-forth, the Gandhi Class at Urvashi Theatre in Majesticu00a0 refers to the front row seats. Mrs G, you've probably never been to a theatre in India, but let me assure you they are as noisy and as crass as the front rows in Parliament House.u00a0 Why are they called Gandhi Class? Perhaps because they are as cheap as Gandhi (of the M.K fame, not the Indira one) would've wanted them to be. Or perhaps it's just a corruption of the word that has another vowel at the end gandoo class?u00a0

No-Class: Down South, we refer to someone who has no class as well, No-Class.u00a0 As against an S-Class Mercedes, these guys have no star on their protruding stomachs.

But they do, or a lot of them, join politics. You, Sonia, must know many No-classes. You just call them Minister.
As for my hapless Twitterer Tharoor I think you're a class act as do so many of your followers. Tweet on, do.