An Indian politician, Odisha Lok Sabha MP, Tathagata Satpathy, did an AMA on Reddit. Let's break that down for those who did not get it. Reddit is an online community of sorts where people from around the world share and discuss information, images, videos, jokes, memes... whatever interest you may have, you will probably find a Reddit comment thread. On it, AMA stands for 'Ask Me Anything' and the person doing the AMA will be online and will take questions from Reddit users in real time and participate in the conversation. In this case, it was four-time Lok Sabha MP Satpathy, Chief Whip of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in the Lok Sabha and journalist and editor of two newspapers, Dharitri (Oriya) and Orissa POST (English).

In a freewheeling discussion, quite uncharacteristic of a politician in this country, topics ranged from his job as a journalist and as an MP to his views on the latest Lok Sabha, land acquisition bills and decriminalising cannabis.

When a Reddit user going by umma_gumma asked the MP if parties should reveal all data related to their funding, Satpathy referenced Pink Floyd before advocating transparency in the funding of parties, being very frank while he was at it.