COMMENT A good two decades back, the emcee at a community building function had guest of honour MIC leader S Samy Vellu humorously in his crosshairs when it came time to introduce him to the audience.

The master of ceremonies announced that the next speaker for the evening had once been a news reader on TV which Samy was in his salad days. The emcee proceeded to enact a cameo of Samy as news reader offering the top items of that day's bulletin.

He pronounced the leading story as that of thieves having broken into the MIC headquarters and stolen the results of party's election scheduled to be held the following year.

The audience, sportingly joined by the target, guffawed at the emcee's attempt at twitting the MIC supremo's ingrained trait: lordly presumption...