The whole incident (you know which one) was stupid, etc., as so many of us has said but check this out in today’s Washington Post, Gandhi’s brought into it!

We would like to thank you for taking the right stand on the gaffe of Sen. George Allen [“George Allen’s America,” editorial, Aug. 15]. It is quite shocking for a person of Mr. Allen’s caliber, who is running for a second Senate term and is a likely candidate for president in 2008, to point a finger at a young lad of 20, bullying our grandson, S.R. Sidarth, and calling him a derogatory and uncalled-for name. Sidarth was only videotaping the event. In the 1930s Sidarth’s great-grandfather accompanied Mohandas Gandhi to London as his secretary at the Round Table Conference on political reform in India. We come from a heritage of nationalists and seekers after truth. Hence these remarks hurt all the more, and we are personally affected by such an attack. BOB NARASIMHAN MANI NARASIMHAN Bethesda