‘The current inflation levels are unacceptable,’ Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said a few days back. As a humour writer I will straightaway accept that I cannot come up with a funnier line. The funniest part is no one can fathom at whom the entire statement is aimed. As the country’s Finance Minister, whose Ministry has to handle inflation, we… Read more →
The residential apartment complex that I live in has been declared by the court to be illegal for having been built on a land earmarked for —- this is why I am a big fan of our judicial system —- ‘residential purposes’. No need to read the previous sentence again. There is no confusion or error there. As per records,… Read more →
Urges media to ‘stop focussing on just one player’ London: Just days after the defeat in the Lord’s Test, Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has conceded that the media’s unremitting focus on a single player was distracting and this was one of the reasons why his own bowling was relatively not ‘all that effective’ in the Test. ‘The media must understand… Read more →
The other day, we espied a mongoose scurrying around some thick greenery in our apartment complex. Immediately, we residents did what we are supposed to upon seeing a mongoose, which is to animatedly shout: ‘There is a snake here’. The mind always does this. Seeing one, thinking another. Let me give you a more practical example. Take a photo of… Read more →
Some unique trivia associated with cricket The biggest buzz ahead of the 2000th Test match ever tomorrow is naturally, considering the historicity of the moment, the court case that Harbhajan Singh has slapped on the company of Vijay Mallaya over a liquor ad featuring Mahendra Singh Dhoni. That the duo will turn up together tomorrow at the Lord’s adds more… Read more →
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