The political responses to Rajan Vichare, a Shiv Sena MP, stuffing a chapati into a fasting Muslim's mouth at the Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi last week tell us something about the texture of Indian politics after the general election.

Arshad Zubair, a catering supervisor for the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, was accosted in the kitchen of the Maharashtra Sadan by 11 Shiv Sena MPs enraged about the quality of the Sadan's catering.  Read Mukul Kesavan's column for the Telegraph.