Humourous articles

The Unified Theory of Fools

April Fools' Day April 1, 2019

Wishing the readers a very Happy April Fools’ Day When I wrote a sincere article, doing a comprehensive review of the songs of 1947 on the 1st April last year, Canasya commented, “you have fooled us”, because he was expecting something else appropriate to the occasion. N Venkataraman echoed the sentiments. By now, the readers […]

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Romancing the dunce or ‘Mahamoorkhon Ke Gaane’

Songs on dunces March 27, 2013

In an interesting Holi tradition in many parts of North India, important personalities of the town get together to play the fool, and vie with each other to get the coveted best fool awards. The next day’s papers carry colourful reports of these proceedings with profile of the winners of Mahamoorkh or Moorkhshiromani awards.

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Some perspectives on Jhumka gira re

Thumbnail image for Some perspectives on Jhumka gira re March 8, 2012

Every married man encounters this experience quite often – you are all dressed up to go to a wedding, you go out to take out your car. The dear wife should have by then locked the house and come to the driveway. But you wait and wait, yet there is no sign of her. You […]

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