Cattle class traveler could be my middle name and working as I do for this newspaper, my impression of holy cows is that they frequently have hooves of clay. Austerity? If I could stay at Taj and go to office, I would.

So, I was thinking: might I and Shashi Tharoor not make a good tweeting twosome? We could tweet about many things. What is really happening with China, for example? Or, we could tweet about the other big, mysterious entity that both government and people sometimes have a hard time figuring out.

But would Tharoor tweet with me about news TV? I don’t see why not. If he did, the Shashi-Saubhik TV tweets may have gone something like this:

Saubhik: Do you watch news TV?

Shashi: That’s your job mate; news TV watches me.

Saubhik: Do you watch what comes out after news TV watches you?

Shashi: I was in bandhgala on NDTV’s Buck Stops Here.

Saubhik: Meaning?

Shashi: Meaning, I wasn’t wearing a tie, like all news TV people do. My way has more style, surely you noticed?

Saubhik: You bet. But only male news anchors regularly wear a tie.

Shashi: Big Fight.

Saubhik: With whom? Liberians?

Shashi: Mate you tweet like you have never traveled business class. You said male anchors, so I mentioned that NDTV show. I want to be on it.

Saubhik: Not NDTV’s We the People?

Shashi: Rather stand behind a silly glass thingamajig than sit on crowded steps. Also, I bet Big Fight will call CPI’s D Raja. He told Times Now he takes auto rickshaws.

... contd.