As the stunning election upset was being registered on our television screens with the prospect of aCongress victory imminent, I said to my wife: "Now we will have to accept So and So's dinner invitation."In India’s one-man one-vote society when a new government is sworn-in, a new set of hangers-on is alsosworn-in with them. These are people ostensibly "close to" the new rulers and in the case of the Congressparty the aforesaid closeness refers to just one individual or shall we say one family. Proximity to Sonia,Rahul and Priyanka means you are the new aristocracy and the difficulty is most of them (the hangers-on) havean extremely high social profile. They are forever either being invited to or throwing dinner parties. Till amonth or two ago, you could safely ignore their invitations. But now….