A Paradise for Those Who Take Offense "One of India's favorite spectator sports is 'taking offense,'" Manu Joseph wrote in The International Herald Tribune. People go about their lives, "then some man somewhere says something ordinary and a community erupts in what looks like joy even though they say they are offended," he wrote. And they go in a "carnival procession" to announce that they are offended, "often laughing and waving to television cameras." "That was what the crowd outside the Jaipur Literature Festival was about last Saturday evening," he wrote. "Men were cheering, laughing and screaming as a television journalist was reporting their claim that they had been insulted by a speaker at the festival," he wrote of the controversy over the remarks made by sociologist Ashis Nandy.