If you were once aspiring to be Secretary General of the UN and lived on the inside track of the caviar and champagne circuit and almost touched the stars then remarks like these are not only part of your psyche but are echoed by all of us in our drawing rooms.

So, what is the big deal?

It is in the timing, mate. You made the remark about the same time as India’s leadership was poncing about setting austerity to music. Mrs Gandhi (Soniaji) was flying Y class and making a production of it, her son was sitting in a chair car while the top brass of the Railways was sweating bullets about what did he have to go do that for, now we will be all posted to Assam or something and having been plucked out gracelessly from his 5-star residence Mr Tharoor himself had been chastised to stay in the Kerala House, the atmosphere was not right.

So talk about great moments in bad timing.

The Congress is not upset about the cattle class observation. They are upset about his calling them holy cows and they believe he mocked them for these tawdry exercises designed for idiot media that cannot still see drivel for what it is…pure drivel.

If there is anything that goes up my nose it is watching an erudite, intelligent, extremely arrogant man like Tharoor having to kneel in the dust and eat crow followed by a dessert of humble pie. Hey man, stand up and walk tall, stop with the sniveling and the groveling, no job, even that of a junior minister, is worth sucking up these twits. You stand by what you said. All of India agrees that travelling on these flights in economy is pure cattle class.