All the President’s Kin

And their mysterious Rs 1 crore suitcases

Imagine for a moment a suitcase containing Rs 1 crore was found making its way to Rahul Gandhi. It would have been enough to take the sheen off the Gandhi family, and Sonia Gandhi would be pilloried over it in every election as long as she was contesting them. Yardsticks by which the Congress President would be judged, however, do not seem to apply to the Indian President. A suitcase containing a crore in bundles of Rs 100 and Rs 500 notes did in fact make its way to Patil's son, and going by how much interest it has evoked, you would think no one found this particularly shocking.