Status Updates From India: A Portrait

Another revision of what all I have already read. Smart writing style though.

'triple talaq’: there had even been debate whether sending the message by email three times constituted a dissolution of the marriage!

lol fest: … while the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran), or DIC(K), is a now defunct faction of the Congress party in Kerala. This is a shame, since 'DIC(K)' is no longer found painted on walls and posters.

In Cochin the royal family included several hundred princesses, and Menon made special provision for them because he thought they resembled 'a rare collection of birds' that would be unlikely to survive if released into the wild.