Ashes first Test musings…

· They may have lost narrowly, but the Aussie Phoenix has partially risen from the Ashes!
Series on!

· Q: How would Australia describe the first Ashes Test?
A: DisastRouS.

· The movie based on the first 2013 Ashes Test should be called Dus.
Exciting and lengthy Tenth wicket stand in both innings for Australia!

· If Dhoni was batting for Australia at this stage, then the English would already have been throwing up during lunch.
Politics in Egypt always has a Spring in its step.

· One of the most tense lunches in the history of Ashes.

These versions by Sunil Rajguru

Today’s Modi musings…

· Modi speaks 10,000 words.
Detractors search for single phrase to distort.
Pappu speaks 10,000 words.
Supporters struggle to search for single meaningful phrase to give positive spin to.

· Someone once asked me how I could accuse Modi of being innocent without any proof.
I think that sums it up quite nicely.

· You know a politician has arrived when an English TV channel telecasts his long Hindi speech live without any breaks.

· Most serious journos secretly wish to write for The Unreal Times/Faking News.
They get that wish when they cover Modi.

· In the history of Independent India, no man has been under as much media-judicial-investigative-CBI-NGO scrutiny as Modi.
If after 11 years of such a mindboggling massive witch-hunt, they are unable to even chargesheet him, “Innocent till proven guilty” to permanently gaya tel lene na is desh se?

These versions by Sunil Rajguru

Twisted quotes for modern Indian politics…

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime—Original quote.
Teach a man to fish and you lose votes. Promise to feed a man a fish every day and you can rule for a lifetime—Sonia Mata on the eve of the Food Bill Ordinance.

I think, therefore I am—Descartes.
I don’t think, therefore am I not?—Pappu.

Think before you speak—Saying.
I speak a lot, but what is this “think” funda that everyone keeps talking about?—Diggy Raja saying.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?—Saying.
With spokespersons like these, who needs the Opposition?—Congress will be saying after the 2014 polls.

Look before you leap—Saying.
Look, I am leaping on your freedom of speech—Government of India is saying.

The BJP pokes its nose in everything—Renuka says.
I don’t have that problem is my nose is always high up in the air—Unsaid.

These versions by Sunil Rajguru