that he is incapable of stringing together five polite words into a decent sentence. Courtiers who owe their political success to the munificence and indulgence of the Congress's first family, it would seem, have a particular flair for bazaar language. The equally harsh tone and tenor of the criticism of Mr Kalam's "willingness" voiced by others, including 'stalwarts' of regional politics whom most of 'new' India ignores or even sniggers at, is equally condemnable and deserves to be treated with contempt.