A group of men broke into the Democratic National Committee HQ at the Watergate office complex in Washington DC and the controversy that resulted from it led to President Richard Nixon losing his job. Since the building was called the Watergate office complex, the controversy was called Watergate. Makes sense. But why do we go about suffixing each and every controversy with a “gate” these days?

Shashi Tharoor probably thought that Twitter was the sole exception to the “think twice before you speak” rule and went about clattering the keys of his system’s keyboard like a happy, hormone-driven teenager. Even before the sweat of his fingertips dried off those keys, he found himself in “Twittergate”.

Lalit Modi has his own set of gates- the media called it “Modigate”.

There of course, are rules and regulations. You cant simply "gate" every other controversy that makes headlines.

The Overexcited Sisters of the TV News Channels stuck their collective feet a bit too deep in their throats when they called Sweat Equity-fame Sunanda controversy as “Sunandagate”, but someone on the newsdesk might have realized the slander and defamation possibilities of that phrase and dropped it.

For a complete list of all the other “gates” that rocked the world, follow this lead:

Now, for some harmless remark:

Our grandpas and grandmas knew best when they said, “early to bed early to rise makes XYZ healthy, wealthy and wise”. Ask MS Dhoni and his gang of sleep-deprived boys.

All those who criticize "The Boys" for blaming it on sleep deprivation- you need to thank your stars because they could have comfortably said that they lost because other teams defeated them...

Nothing stopped them from saying it.