The normally dapper Prime Minister had a sartorial faux pas when he was spotted with a red band of colour around his head. Many of the invitees to President Pranab Mukherjee's At Home held in the Ceremonial Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan yesterday, noticed that the PM seemed to have had his silver locks coloured in a dubious red hue and worse, he had the same colour in a band around his forehead.

The Prime Minister shook hands with almost all the 1800 invitees and spent a few seconds with each of them, but none of them asked him about new Lochinvar look.

When this correspondent asked the Prime Minister, he said that during his I-Day speech at Red Fort he had worn a wore Rajasthani turban, and the color had run on this head. He also said that nobody had pointed it out to him till then.

What was that about belling the cat?