Call it the Mahatma's ailment - 'It costs us a lot of money to keep this man poor,' the Nightingale of India had rightly tweeted without a hashtag - or the neurosis of a nationalist, socialist state. But why would being urban and elite be an embarrassing tag, shameful enough for the Union government to describe same-sex marriage as an 'urban elite concept' before the most elite institution of India, the Supreme Court?