I believe our girls aren’t winning beauty contests anymore!
Miss Universe contest’s just got over and I looked for Miss India on stage but someone politely told me she’d already taken the flight back the day before!
Back home, a former judge whispered in my ear, “It’s our reservation system!”
“You mean they now have reservations for beauty More….

With Chidambaram calling terror, saffron, and the BJP calling it green, many in the country who never knew that terror wore colours are wondering whether they should have been more aware of colours around them:
“If only the government had told us before about the colours terror likes to wear we would have careful all this More….

And as I read with horror about the match fixing by Pakistani cricketers, I wondered what was happening to the ‘gentleman’s’ game?
Or rather where are the gentlemen?
As I grew up, there were two sets of game seasons that went side by side. One the season in my rather elitist school, of cricket, hockey and football, More….

Who taught us to tell the truth when we were small? Our mothers of course, yet mothers do lie, as the touching lines penned by an anonymous author reveal below:
“Whenever we had some food, Mother often gave me her portion of rice. While she was transferring her rice into my bowl, she would say “Eat More….

This morning’s paper had a picture of a Bollywood actor caught for drunken driving and as I looked at his red, flushed, surprised and angry face I thought I’d cheer him up by relating other incidents of drunken driving and drunks:
A policeman was waiting outside a bar looking fro drunk drivers. At closing time he More….

And as athletes throughout the world wonder whether there are going to be Commonwealth Games this year, and have even started withdrawing from the event, let me hasten to assure them that all this tamasha, funfare and furore, concerning unfinished constructions and greased hands, is normal in India.
I mean, come on sports people do you More….

One-day cricket, test matches and even the newer form of the game hardly interest me anymore, but there’s one time I put on the TV, and that’s when Sachin bats! He’s incredible, and the whole country stops what it’s doing when the little master walks to the crease. Today let’s hear what the rest of More….

And as I hear of different states in India fighting with each other over the sharing of river waters, others claiming a city, which is not theirs, I begin to wonder whether we ever think ourselves as people belonging to one land?
I remember a joke, or maybe it’s not a joke after all:
An American visited More….

This morning’s paper had some strange news; that a village called Thulukkarpatti in Tamilnadu, refuses to hoist the national flag year after year because they feel they would all die if they ever did so!
According to them several years ago, many in the village passed away under mysterious circumstances, and those deaths were blamed on More….

Fed up with the cheating done by taxi drivers and auto rickshaw men three youngsters organized a boycott in the city of Mumbai of public three wheelers and four wheelers yesterday, and forty thousand people from the city walked, took a bus, or train but did not get into a taxi or rickshaw!
So successful was More….