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Is there anyone out there who still avers that India has not arrived on the world stage.
Folks, if there were any doubts at all about nookulear India’s preeminence in the world the above pie-chart sets everything to rest.
Truly, the 21st century belongs to India!
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India – A Shitty Country, Literally
And how I despise the average citizen, who settles himself down upon one tiny spot of land with one asinine woman, to breed and stew and rot in that condition unto his life’s end. And always with the same woman! I simply cannot believe that any man in his senses would put up with just one female day after day and year after year. Some of them, of course, don’t. But millions pretend they do.
- The Visitor in The Best of Roald Dahl P. 294-295
Needless to say we completely agree with Dahl’s sentiments concerning the distaff sex. 
By the way, The Visitor is another fine story by Dahl.
Highly recommended, guys.
(For SI blog reader VJcool)
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
- American folksinger and song-writer Pete Seeger: “Where have all the flowers gone?”
In Incredible India, you don’t say it with flowers anymore.
So yesteryear. So uncool.
Marigold, Champa, Jasmine and Rose – who cares for them anymore in India?
Flowers are out. Their stench is unbearable.
And currency notes are in. Ah, what a sweet smell these crisp notes spread all around them!
Even India’s esteemed netas are now eschewing malodorous flowers for fragrant currency notes.
Take for instance, Mayawati a.k.a Maya behn, our beloved Maharani Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Bahujan Samaj Party leader.
On Monday to celebrate 25 years of the BSP and the 76th birthday of its late founder Kanshi Ram at the Ramabai Ambedkar maidan in Lucknow, Maya behn was honored by her supporters with a garland of flowers Rs 1,000 notes.
Hey, we can smell the fragrance of the currency even here across the ocean.
Her Royal Highness Mayawati
(Photo: UP Govt. web site)
Not for our Maya behn Rs 100 or lesser denomination notes or God forbid the coins that lesser leaders are weighed in not so infrequently in the various corners of Incredible India. Continue reading »
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