THE INSIDER: Give water where it is needed
An Indian cabinet minister snapped urinating in public landed in hot water after the picture was circulated widely on social media
An Indian cabinet minister snapped urinating in public landed in hot water after the picture was circulated widely on social media. The picture of Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh watering the wall of a roadside café caught the minister a bit off guard — he apparently does not keep a diary of the times he relieves himself against other people’s walls. One sarcastic comment on social media suggested the minister was inaugurating an irrigation project in the drought-affected area. A spokesman for the minister’s Bharatiya Janata Party defended him: "One cannot suppress nature’s call for long. What do you do if you are travelling long distances and there are no public urinals on the way?" Well, there must have been trees by the roadside, dying for lack of moisture. An agriculture minister should know better. Ungodly servility earns butt kick A Saudi columnist has been suspended after he went too far in praise of the country’s leader, King Salman. The BBC reported Ramadan al-Anzi’s...
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