Popular guests on India's nightly television news debates, you'll notice, follow a pretty predictable pattern to stay on camera/screen, while equally frustrated folk on multiple windows jostle for the same attention at prime-time. The trick is simple.

The wily fellow, boisterous, loud -almost tending towards lewd - firstly chooses an opponent from the long line-up on screen. Having marked the target, he pretends to direct potent rage in all its glorious aggression, towards that one person alone. Cat-fight ensues. You don't know what's going on for a second or two.