'P' word leaves Jaishankar paused and VK alone

April 10, 2015 13:35

In a room packed with journalists, foreign secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar had just spent 40 minutes speaking and answering questions about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to France, Germany and Canada when it was time for one final query.

A reporter asked Jaishankar if there was any precedent of a junior foreign minister comparing the news media to sex workers and if the foreign secretary would like to comment on minister of state for external affairs VK Singh's coinage of the word "presstitute?"

Jaishankar paused, thought and responded: "No."

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