The Omelette That Wasn't

In the final days of the campaign, the Congress in Telangana showcased a jumbo egg-shaped delight at several rallies.

On that white orb were painted, in black, the Telugu letters gadidha guddu (donkey’s egg). Held up at rallies to humour their audiences, this is essentially a visual joke meant to take a jibe at the BJP. The other day, CM Revanth Reddy had dipped his digital ink in full-on snark as he deployed this old folk image on X. All that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given the state in a decade was a gadidha guddu, he tweeted.