Failure is not a word in the UPA dictionary

There is no power failure.
I never had power in the first place!
—Manmohan Singh.

There is no intelligence failure.
We never had intelligence in the first place!
—P Chidambaram.

There is no financial failure.
You are looking at White, while Black is booming!
—Pranab Mukherjee.

There is no tolerance failure.
We are tolerating all you idiotic citizens, aren’t we?
—Manish Tewari.

There is no governance failure.
All the scams are hereby declared Zero Loss.
—Kapil Sibal.

There is no foreign affairs failure.
Only Pakistan is a failed state.
—SM Krishna.

There is no power failure.
Black is the new industry standard.
—Sushil Kumar Shinde

There is no failure.
(That’s merely another name for the RSS).
—Digvijay Singh.

These versions by Sunil Rajguru

July 2012 Status Updates

∙ Overheard…
Manmohan Singh: Kamse kam tum logo ka power waapis to aayega! Mera power cut to permanent hai!

∙ Zero Loss Sibal gets his match in Zero Power Loss Tewari.

∙ India has officially entered the Dark Age… Black Money, Blackouts and Black hearts are the order of the day.

(July 31)

∙ Anna is “fast” losing support in this country.

(July 25)

∙ Election of a President.
When you add an S (Sonia) to it, it is nothing but…
Selection of a President.

(July 24)

∙ Today the IPL resumes: IndoLanka Perennial League.

(July 21)

∙ No. 1 is White Money. No. 2 is Black.
And they say Rahul Gandhi is No. 2 in Congress.

(July 19)

∙ Cricket + Politics = Cocktail
Cricket + Politics + Pak = Molotov Cocktail

(July 16)

∙ Fed(is.no)ex!

(July 9)

∙ Bose… Boson.
So if a Mr More discovers a subatomic particle, we’ll finally have a Moron?

(July 7)

∙ Particles have antiparticles.
So is the antiparticle of the God particle the Devil particle?
Over to you CERN.

(July 5)

∙ You can find God in whatever you look, even in a particle.

Bhagwan nahin mila, par kam se kam bhagwan ka tukda to mila!
(God particle)

(July 4)

∙ New election symbols in UP…
SP: Car.
BSP: Maya’s statue.
BJP: Wilted lotus.
Cong: Thumbs down hand.

∙ Lady Gaga is the smartest celebrity.
I’m sure she goes out of her house in normal clothes regularly and nobody recognizes her.

∙ It had become LinkedIntoTwitter.
Now it’s back to being LinkedIn.

∙ A Kingfisher bird strikes in the water.
A Kingfisher plane strikes in the air.
(Note: Both strikes have different meanings.)

(July 3)

∙ No relationship comes with an expiry date.
Unless you’re Tom Cruise… then it’s 33.

∙ The reign in Spain stays mainly on the football plain.

(July 2)

∙ Everyone apes TOI. TOI apes The Hindu.
At Independence, The Hindu carried only ads on the Front page.
Now in 2012, TOI does that regularly.

(July 1)

© Sunil Rajguru

Only in India…

∙ Immoral Thugs are called the Moral Police.

∙ Dishonourable Murders in cold blood are called Honour Killings.

∙ Looters of the People are called Servants of the People.

∙ Recognizing religion and caste and pandering to it is called Secularism.

∙ Greater the crime, greater is the chance of getting away.

∙ Brutal Foetus Murders are called plainly Female Infanticides.

∙ An Undertrial can complete his prison term many times over without every coming to trial.

∙ An illegal attempt to dictate what women can wear is called a Dress Code.

∙ Past great leaders are defended with violence and till death but their ideals totally forgotten.

These versions by Sunil Rajguru

Hindi TV soap logic…

∙ 30 minutes of a Hindi soap opera = 10 minutes ads + 10 minutes of dragging plot with melodramatic music + 7 minutes of incessant close-ups + 3 minutes of story.
Note: That 3 minutes of the story, like the expanding universe, can even fill in a few hours, if required.

∙ Old song: Dil Vil pyaar vyaar main kya janu re…
Soap song: DIL MIL pyaar vaar main hi janu re…

∙ Hindi soap operas are like the X-files… no-one really dies… they can be brought back to life at any time.

∙ Hindi soaps are like science fiction. When they start losing TRP ratings, they simply time travel into the future.

∙ The logic of Hindi soaps has the power of washing away the grey matter of your brain.

© Sunil Rajguru

To be or not to be, that is the question…

Politics in India is facing Hamlet style dilemmas…

Karnataka BJP…
To split or not to split, that is the question.

Nitish on NDA…
To quit or not to quit, that is the question.

Mamata on UPA…
To exit or not to exit, that is the question.

UPA on explaining the economy…
To bullshit or not to bullshit, that is the question.

Planning Commission woes…
To shit (in such an expensive loo!) or not to shit, that is the question.

ACP Dhoble when he enters a Mumbai bar…
To beat or not to beat, that is the question.

Rahul Gandhi’s entire political philosophy…
To eat (in a poor man’s house) or not to eat, that is the question.

These versions by Sunil Rajguru