Short Takes November 2010

· Pak Govt to grant Industry Status to Cricket Match-Fixing Syndicate. Move expected to boost sagging Pak economy.

· Calls in US Govt to dub WikiLeaks a terrorist organization. Makes sense. Anything against the US has to be terrorist, na?

(November 30)

· Caution: All your Facebook and Twitter messages are like tiny little ghosts which will come back to haunt you after 20 years…

· WikiLeaks: How can millions of words discussed by thousands of US officials of which the world has a general idea anyway be called a secret?

(November 29)

· Obama’s biggest achievement: Transperancy. Now everyone knows what the US thinks, its secrets… (Err… or is that the WikiLeaks effect?)

· Equality…
Congress: Kalmadi nirdosh hai…
Army: Adarsh main hum nirdosh hai…
BJP: BSY nirdosh hai…
DMK: Raja nirdosh hai…
Maya: Main nirdosh hu…
NDTV: Barkha nirdosh hai…

(November 28)

· Journalism has finally reached Industry Status. It’s got its own Mega Scam! 2:04 PM Nov 27th via Ping.fm

· PR now stands for the Person Radia…

(November 27)

· Media reports on the Government. Social Media reports on the Media. Media=Watchdog. Social Media=Social Watchdog.

(November 26)

· Indian corruption ek Iceberg hai yaaro! Despite all these sensational revelations, 7/8ths will always remain below the surface…

· Facebook brings people thousands of kilometres apart closer and puts a rift between people living close by?

(November 25)

· YSR dies in a crash. Rosiah quits in a huff. Jagan is quite the rebel. Telangana is waiting in the wings. Tera kya hoga re Andhra Pradesh?

· Breaking News: A landslide took place in Bihar today, burying a former chief minister and his brand of politics.

· Bihar goes from the BC to AD era!
BC=Before Caste.
AD=After Development.

· Patna D.C.!
D (Development) beats C (Caste)

(November 24)

· Don’t worry, the Government has just got PMS, it will get over it. (PMS = Prime Ministereal Stress)

· Never thought I’d see an MMS related scandal in Indian politics. (MMS = Man Mohan Singh)

(November 22)

· Ummm… wasn’t Raja in charge of the 3G spectrum too? Uske full revelations kab aayenge? 4G implementation ke samay?

· 3G hit Japan in 2001. 4G hit Norway in 2009. 2G just hit India with full force in 2010.

· Saamne ye aa raha hai ki Raja ke baraat main sab naache the–yaane ki Raja ne sab ka band bajaya…

(November 21)

· In 2010, media enters 2G era: Journos have changed their Outlook and are no longer Open talkers… about 23 hours ago via web

· Radia ne dho dia…

(November 20)

· What did one politician say to the other? Tera scam mere scam se bada kaisa?
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· You can ban Bigg Boss from prime time TV, but can you ban it from prime time news channels & Net? Wish I&B Ministry had better things to do.

· Note: Indian politicians are not divided into the Corrupt and the Clean. They are divided into the Exposed and the Hidden.

(November 19)

· Manmohan ka Raja-yog shuru ho gaya hai.

(November 17)

· Shoot the corrupt says Baba Ramdev. I don’t think we have enough bullets in India for that.

· 8-year-old son talk: When I grow up, I’ll be just like you! I’ll trouble my children too!

(November 15)

· Post-Commonwealth Games Reality Check: In the time it takes for India to pick up a solitary Gold Medal, China plunders 37 Golds!

(November 14)

· Even if we couldn’t be bothered in real life, on social networking sites atleast we seem to be bothered about every little to big thing in our life, everyone else’s life and every corner of the world…

(November 13)

· Masterchef Australia: Pure cooking, spiced with drama.
Masterchef India: Pure Nautanki. (Oh… by the way, we also cook!)

(November 11)

· Cricketing justice: Lose matches, get moolah. Win matches, get death threats.

· At this attrition rate, soon every second male Pak citizen would have played in the Pak cricket team…

· When it strictly comes to Indo-US ties, who was the genius and who was the joker? (Obama or Bush?)

(November 9)

· Vettori to Laxman: Ye Wrists dede mujhe Thakur!

· Agar Laxman na hota, to tera kya hota re Bharatwa?

· Blah!rack OBlah!ma. Blah blah blah. King of Blah. All talk, no real gain for India by this visit. Just enjoy the media-blah and forget…

(November 8 )

· Humanity triumphs when it really wants to… Millions of crackers going off amidst continuous rain…

· If you’re in Bangalore, behold the spectacle: The heavens are washing the city of Diwali pollution & giving you a quiet smoke-free evening

Bhai logo samjho. Amreeka ka rashtrapati katora le ke aaya hai, jobs market ka katora. Hame unki koi khaas zaroorat nahin, par unko hain na

(November 7)

Aaiyyo Rama! Shuru ho gaya Obama Drama ka TV Hungama!

Happy Air Pollution. Happy Noise Pollution. Safe Diabetes. Safe Allergies & Respiratory Woes. Hope you used child-labour free crackers.

(November 6)

· Get ready for the Obama Bomb to explode on Indian TV channels soon. Every step he takes, every move he makes, every breath he takes, they’ll be watching him and reporting him…

· Arundhati’s next: The Politics of Infinite Controversies.

(November 2)

· Historically, Arundhati Roy was never part of India…

(October 27)

© Sunil Rajguru