"Let Them Eat The Cake"

When Mr. Amitabh Bachchan tweeted about Mr. Javed Akhtar presenting a slum-shaped cake to his wife Ms. Shabana Azami, I was reminded of this famous quote of last french queen Marie Antoniette.

The apathy of this thoughtless action struck me as being too crude from somebody like Javed Akhtar for whom I have a huge respect otherwise (see here and here). Parading around pain of coutless, homeless urban poor of India as a personal jest to his social activist wife was ill-done in my opinion.

Irony of gorging down dellings of poor was apparently lost on everyone including Mr. Javed Akhtar, the socialist.

The guardian calls this poverty porn (The link has a photograph of the cake as well). I can't agree more!