To begin with, King Lear is the most unconventional, the most nearly hysterical, the most outré and outrageous play Shakespeare ever wrote.

He left his fingermark on the recently-cleaned cloth.

Or does the hypocrisy and doublethink go beyond a loathing of the human body and an acceptance of violence to a very practical fear that such a club in a predominantly middle-class Caucasian neighborhood will drive down property values?

And even an iconic movie star like Amitabh Bachchan is not embarrassed to state he approves of actress Aishwarya because she is homely and domesticated (read: not a sexual adventuress).