Kannan Somasundaram is a senior assistant editor at the Times of India in Ahmedabad. After graduating from New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia in 1994, he began his career in journalism as a film and book reviewer. The amorality and violence of modern cinema and literature prepared him well for subsequent stints with news desks dealing with Indian politics. LESS... MORE
Amid fashion lines crisscrossing into a purple patch, the mittens of Bernie Sanders were like a scribble on a prescription pad: “Keep warm and gargle with lukewarm water.” He inadvertently became hand in mitten with meme-makers at the ceremony in which Joe Biden was sworn in as the president of the United States. But Bernie (the mittens almost embarrass the pomp of the surname formality) is by no means the first political figure to cause a commotion with an accessory designed for a downroar.