Day 1,800: effete

Many in the bjp hoped to forge a single national identity, based on Hinduism and the Hindi language, and to change India’s liberal constitution, which they view as an effete Western construct.

A triumph for Indian democracy

Artwork of the day 
Effet de soleil couchant cropped
Theophile Steinlen
Genre: cityscape

Word of the day 
effete: weak and without much power:

Quote of the day
“I'd rather be remembered as a big-mouthed failure than an effete little wimp.”

― Morrissey