This is something I am really curious about. Do our leaders know it when they are being hypocritical? I mean, take Somnath Chatterjee. He has been told that he won’t be allowed through diplomatic channels into Australia and he throws a fit. He can’t say “I am too important to be subject to frisking”, so he throws the “It’s not about me – it is the country’s prestige at stake” fit.

Do these guys know that they are lying? Or are they deceiving themselves too?