Thousands came to see the special that carried the President's coffin.

Fifty years on, the 'Marathi manoos' whose primacy the Sena and its offshoots seek to protect is imagined above all as an aggrieved petty government official, not a trader, nor an entrepreneur, nor a mill-worker.

In spite, though, of the logic of the 'network,' the subtendent rationalization for the structure of the Internet, blogs hail the effective reverse of this model: blogs are, in the words of Stodge.org blogger Randi Mooney, chiefly 'a form of vanity publishing ... the truth is that blogs consist of senseless teenage waffle.

I didn't reckon with his stubbornness.