Archive for October, 2004

She and Them

Friday, October 22nd, 2004

I was watching a Talk show on some channel. The issue was corruption. They had roped in the most upbeat officer of that time as the guest. The show was moving on smoothly. Nothing new was being said. Everyone was being politically correct. Two guys in the prime of their youth, were arguing, “Nothing […]

Arming buffoons (with due apology to buffoons) with Power!

Tuesday, October 19th, 2004

Panchayat asks husband-wife to become brother-sister!
Is it a joke that they will force a lawfully wedded husband and wife to live like brother and sister? That too, when the wife, sorry “the sister” is pregnant with the child of her “soon to be brother.”
When we agreed for the Panchayati Raj, we did not bargain for […]

Hymenoplasty

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

Once I read somewhere, “Professional credibility is like virginity, once you lost it you never get it back.”
But during this disguised Behenjis and Bhai-sahibs era, the author has to think of some other simile. I was reading a leading weekly. As the sun comes out and the darkness has to hide in a corner till […]