Rama came sweeping into my hospital room with the haughty grandeur of aBrahmin empress, wearing a salmon pink sari and leading a retinue of assistants, interpreters, and equipment bearers.
So putting aBrahmin priest in jail will not hurt Dr Jayalalitha politically - indeed, it may fetch her dividends when the state goes to the polls next year.
He is the richest man in a Senate full of rich people: a Boston Brahmin (his middle name is Forbes) who married an heiress and went to a Swiss boarding school.