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The arrogance of Pawar, the baron-politician...
by Rajdeep Sardesai
Apr 19, 2013

responses. Even by the depressingly low standards of public discourse in the country, Mr Pawars statement would give Marie Antoinettes classic let them eat #Crony capitalism # Maharashtra # Ajit Pawar # Drought
Beer country Goa, battles over water
Apr 06, 2013

-eating Marie Antoinette when asked why the water in the states reservoirs was being increasingly laced with manganese.Having little manganese in drinking water #Prashant Bhushan # Supreme Court # ConnectTheDots # Manohar Parrikar # manganese # Goa mining # Open cast mining # Ramkrishna Dhavalikar # water table
Rail Budget 2013: Bansal's promise of Free Wifi on trains trends on cynical Twitter
by FP Staff
Feb 26, 2013

Shenoy K. (@konchady) February 26, 2013Pawan Bansal is Mary Antoinette- "If they can't have freedom, let they have free wifi" Ajith (@ajith27 #Railways # SocialMedia # Railway Budget 2013 # Free Wifi
Movie Review: Les Miserables, heart-wrenching epic saga
Jan 19, 2013

close-up, has been much admired, but her performance and appearance is a bit Marie Antoinette-ish. Her poverty-stricken character is supposed to have #Hugh Jackman # Movie review # Sacha Baron Cohen # Anne Hathaway # Russell Crowe # Helena Bonham Carter # Les Miserables # Aaron Tveit # Amanda Seyfried # Colm Wilkinson # Eddie Redmayne # Isabelle Allen
#EpicFail: Pitroda makes a hash of DoI hashtags!
by FP Staff
Sep 26, 2012

4:25pm: And this could well be Pitroda's Mary Antoinette moment-come-true! @DevjyotGhoshal asked Pitroda how the NKN, the National Knowledge Network #NewsTracker # PMO # Sam Pitroda
Adi Godrej's Marie Antoinette moment: Indian farmer should invest in stocks
by Vivek Kaul
Sep 12, 2012

Antoinette. She had apparently said this to peasants when she came to know that they had no bread to eat. There is no record that Marie Antoinette, wife #GDP # Adi Godrej # ConnectTheDots # Agriculture # farmers # CII
Asma Assad: The pretty face of a brutal regime
Mar 24, 2012

Beriut: As Syria's bloodshed deepens, the British-born first lady has become an object of contempt for many, a Marie Antoinette figure who shopped #Syria # Bashar al-Assad # Hafez al-Assad # WhoIsThis # Asma al-Assad
Minimum city blues: whither Kolkata?
by Sandip Roy
May 16, 2011

bhadralok is like Marie Antoinette, says Ramaswamy. If (the masses) cant have bread, give them Rabindrasangeet. In Tagore, the arts became part of a humanist #Mamata Banerjee # Kolkata # TheBigQuestion
Tunisia's ex-first lady to tell her "truth" in memoir
by FP Staff
Apr 05, 2012

in the North African country where she was reviled by many as a latter-day Marie-Antoinette.Her book, to be published in French under the title "Ma Verite #markets # Argentina

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