Spoken as written

It is now the world’s word’s worst kept secret that the recent AICC session in Delhi was all about anointing Rahul Gandhi as the Congress’ future leader. While a lot more needs to happen before this can be fully realised, spindoctors are already on the job. One such party spinmeister was busy equating Rahul with his father in the galleries of Parliament, especially with regard to technology. Yet he let it slip that Rahul did not like to print his speeches and that when speaking at the AICC, he had a handwritten speech with virtually no record of it save the paper on which it was written.