Snide and prejudiced
January 08, 2013  11:50
The English media went into overdrive yesterday. They'd managed to find another misogynist to quote, and as a cherry on the sexist cake this quote was from Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the RSS, the English media's favourite bug bear.

According to most of the English press, Bhagwat, a chauvinistic prig, had the temerity to make a public speech stating that women are bound to look after their husbands by contract, and if they didn't fulfil their duties, their husbands could and should leave them.

And that a woman's place is in the kitchen doing household chores. Many news channels ran with the story. And their public school educated reporters and editors tweeted and retweeted gleefuly with gay abandon, exposing the shakha-types.

Only problem, Bhagwat -- whose main sin appears to be that he wears khaki bermudas despite the effect the vision might have on unsuspecting viewers '" has been misquoted. Read
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