The thing that unnerved me was his strange idiosyncrasy that a sneeze is more enjoyable if you don’t cover your mouth — with mask, hand, elbow, book, newspaper, barf bag — anything! ‘No Cover, Great Pleasure’ seemed to be his perverse credo.
Tag Archives: Humour
Corporate (Un)Culture
SHORT STORY/SATIRE: ‘The email from the HR Business Partner came on a Friday morning. She wanted to meet Rajat to discuss something important. Rajat’s manager, Lokesh, hadn’t mentioned anything. So he was curious what it could be about.’
How I Became the Richest Person in the World
SHORT STORY/SATIRE – ‘Those were tough days. I had sold my scooter to loan money to a local businessman, Firki bhai. He put it in a business that eventually sank because, as it became apparent later, he knew nothing about that line of business! And when I asked for my money back, he avoided me! It’s not like he wasn’t rich already; he just wouldn’t return what he owed me!’
Sheru, the Girl-Boy Dog
A SHORT STORY
“It had got dark earlier than usual, and the park looked like a dark-green canvas with splotches of white. Sheru was sitting cross-legged, ladylike, facing a girl swinging on the swing, as if guarding her. But he saw me a fraction of a second before I saw him. And in that time, he had wagged his tail, got up, and started limp-running to intercept me on the walkway…”
Phunparliamentary
One of the most common expletives in North India (and I’m sure elsewhere) begins with ‘chu’. It is naturally uncivil and, you guessed it, ‘unparliamentary’. What is interesting is that some locals dampen the auditory (but not the semantic) blow of the word by replacing ‘chu’ with ‘phu’.
Adventures in Personal Space
The tall young man walked up to the counter like his dad owned the sun and everything under it – typical of some of God’s favourite men in Delhi.
Desperately Seeking Glory—On Twitter!
You can guess that those are their national flags or the flags of the countries to which they owe their allegiance. I’ve made an unfortunate observation: most of these flag-flying fellas are 1) men, 2) easily angered, and 3) humourless.
No Bark, No Bite
Once upon a time, in a big and diverse country, there lived two large communities—Group Ma and Group Mi—among several smaller communities. Group Ma was the biggest and Group Mi the second biggest in numbers. Group Mi people traditionally ate tree bark. A vast majority of Group Ma also ate tree bark, but on specialContinue reading “No Bark, No Bite”
News from 2084, Issue 6: Raghuram in Autonomy Furore
★21 January 2084, Staff Reporter, Indraprastha★ While institutional autonomy was amended out of the Indian constitution in 2019 to \’prevent discord in society\’, in a shocking incident, a high-level constitutional authority was caught thinking unconstitutionally. Shri Raghuram Vibhajan, the head of the Bhartiya Sanskriti Aayog, the top policymaking body of the country, came under attackContinue reading “News from 2084, Issue 6: Raghuram in Autonomy Furore”
News from 2084, Issue 5: Odd-Even Starts Again
★20 January 2084, Agencies, Indraprastha★ Government today began the implementation of its election promise to fight pollution in the capital. People will henceforth be categorised as \’Odd\’ or \’Even\’ based on their looks. The govt estimates that the Odd/Even Card will restrict 50% of the population from stepping out of their houses, thereby cutting trafficContinue reading “News from 2084, Issue 5: Odd-Even Starts Again”
Anupam Choudhury 