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Then theres James Otis,the capitalistic foreigner in question,who scrambled to recover the moral high ground after being tut-tutted at by persons in government for commercialising Gandhis heritage an accusation puzzlingly not thrown at Vidhu Vinod Chopra or the rest of the Munnabhai team. In an extraordinary expression of self-assertion,Otis demanded that the elected government of the worlds largest democracy alter its spending priorities if it wanted the used eyeglasses in question.

And how did all this end? In properly Indian manner,with competitive chaos: Tushar Gandhi using Dilip Doshi to bid against Vijay Mallya,who may or may not have been the states representative. If anyone thinks that the spectacle of a liquor baron bidding for the used crockery of a man who was not the worlds biggest alcohol fan was blasphemous,theyre clearly moralistic killjoys that dont understand Gandhism. What more agreeable spectacle than Vijay Mallya,the buyer of Tipus sword,now buying slightly less violent relics? And wasnt he complaining the other day Kingfisher had no money? Or than the government,which first disdained then took credit for Slumdog,now trying to take credit for another Indian Victory Abroad?