Time to leash spy agencies in India

Make no mistake, that was not chewing gum found at sixteen different locations in the Finance Minister's offices. In Mail Today here there are a lot of young people, but you are unlikely to find gum adhering to the undersides of our desks; that is strictly for the high schools and cinema halls frequented by the young. If you accept the chewing gum thesis, you are akin to P G Wodehouse's Madeline Basset who believed that every time a fairy sneezed, a baby was born and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Dour babus and corporate heads who haunt the offices and conference rooms of the Ministry are not the kind who would chew gum, and most certainly not those who would surreptitiously stick it on the underside of the desk of the Finance Minister of the country at three different places.

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