When Gandhi asked students of the all-women Mount Carmel College if Modi's ambitious programmes were working, they responded with a loud yes much to his discomfiture and leaving Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and state Home Minister G. Parameshwara red-faced.

Gandhi was interacting with about 500 students in the reputed autonomous institution on "Role of youth in building a vibrant India", amid tight security, as even media was kept away from the auditorium, ostensibly to avoid witnessing such embarrassment and discomfort.

A perturbed Congress lawmaker in the Lok Sabha, however, differed with them and said "you might see it but I don't see a vision that the BJP is projecting".

The hour-long interaction was part of Rahul's outreach programme to campus students across the country.When a bemused Gandhi again asked students ifa female protagonist in the framing story. Delightful!

Leah Schnelbach at Tor.com destroys Exodus: If You’re From Ancient Egypt, Why Are You White?. In taking the long view of the film, she actually proves whitewashing is just the tip of the iceberg—she also takes it to task for being a completely unimaginative adaptation of the Exodus story and explores what makes a good adaptation of religious lore:

This just brings up the larger problem with adapting stories from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, though. These stories adapt and evolve with us. When Exodus was first written down, it was a story for the Hebrew people to celebrate their cultural and religious heritage—essentially the origin story of an entire nation. It was a story of their people, and explained them