Independence Day correspondence…

Dear Government,
May I go on an indefinite fast in a public place to destablise your government?
Warm regards,
Anna

Dear Anna,
Of course you may not! Get out in three days.
Warm regards,
Police

Dear Manmohan,
Why are you silent? The police is giving me permission only for three days!
Warm regards,
Anna

Dear Anna,
What is this? A police state? Don’t bother me. Go ask the police!
Warm regards,
Manmohan

Dear Pratibha,
With BSY gone I am totally bored and have nothing to do and no one to write to. Kindly advise.
Warm regards,
Hansraj

Dear Hansraj,
I have just one word to say to you.
Sadanand.
Now get back to work!
Warm regards,
Pratibha

Dear Manmohan,
Chidambaram is getting on my nerves.
Warm regards,
Narendra

Dear Narendra,
As of now every UPA minister and spokesperson is getting on everyone’s nerves. What do you expect me to do? Just keep quiet like me and all your problems will vanish. Stop wasting your time with all these silly letters all of you!
Warm regards,
Manmohan

Dear Government,
I must say that you are really corrupt and dictatorial!
Warm regards,
Anna

Dear Anna,
Same to you! You are also corrupt and dictatorial.
Warm regards,
Government
P.S. Happy Independence Day! Please go and eat some yummy shrikhand puri on that day and after that just go to sleep, you old Marathi manoos!

© Sunil Rajguru

Edgbaston Musings…

Same country-coach jinx…
Under New Zealander John Wright, India never beat New Zealand in a Test Series.
Under Australian Greg Chappell India never beat Australia in a Test series*.
Under South African Gary Kirsten, India never beat South Africa in a Test series
Under Zimbabwean Duncan Fletcher, with the way we are playing right now, we might never even beat Zimbabwe in a Test series!

First the England Tail was better than Indian Batting.
Now even the Indian Tail is better than Indian Batting.
Best batting line-up in the world?
Tall Tale!

Whenever the Little Master nears a landmark, we have a string of nervous failures.
After the Landmark, we have a flurry of confident centuries.
How many Landmarks does a man need, before he looks at just the team scoreboard?

If India do lose 0-4, someone should burn the bails and make a New India Ashes.

(*While India never met Australia in a Test series when Chappell was in-charge, we were thrashed by 337 runs in the only Test we played the year he quit.)

(Reference: India-England cricket Test match at Edgbaston from August 10-14)

These versions by Sunil Rajguru

A short skit on India’s debacle in England…

Class Teacher Duncan Fletcher aaya…

Students ka haal poocha…

Sehwag: Mere kandhe main dard hai.

Gambhir: Mera haath sujha hua hai.

Zaheer: Mera pair dukh raha hai.

Bhajji: Mere pet main dard hai.

Yuvi: Abhi to main bimari se nikla hu!

Mukund: Main naya hu, kuch samajh main nahin aata.

Ishant-Sreesanth: Itna kabhi bhaage nahin life main, hume rest do.

Raina: Ye sab dekh ke mujhe headache ho raha hai!

Class monitor Dhoni: Mera poora class hi thaka hua hai to main kya karu! Aaj kal mera bhi man hi nahin lagta routine matches main.

Headmaster Shashank Manohar: Naacho! Aur zor se naacho! Naach mere bublbul-o to paise milega, to paise milega…

© Sunil Rajguru

More Trent Bridge Musings…

Bhajji ko series main itne saare runs khaake hajam nahin hua isiliye fourth day ko stomach upset tha.

∙ Tendulkar Mahashatak Trivia No. 23: The bowlers purposely leaked runs to ensure that Sachin would get a large enough target to score his 100th international hundred.

∙ If we lose this Test then Rahul might just gain Sachin’s iconic status. Some may say: We lose every time Dravid scores a century.

∙ Bad performance Reason No. 24: Duncan Fletcher has spent so much time with the English cricket team that he speaks like them. The Indian players sub-consciously think that the enemy is speaking to them and don’t listen to him.

∙ Bad performance Reason No. 27: The Indian cricketers body clock is still set to IST and that’s why they play well till tea after which its bedtime for most. Either that or the English tea simply doesn’t suit them.

∙ If the Indian cricket team were an animal then it would be one with a great body and a lousy tail.

(Reference: India-England cricket Test match at Trent Bridge from July 29-August 2)

© Sunil Rajguru

July 2011 Status Updates

∙ Here’s hoping that the English Lords find Trent a Bridge too far…

(July 29)

∙ Yeddy… (2008)
Steady… (2009)
Go… (2010)
Finally went! (2011)
(Note: UPA still “Steady” in 2011)

(July 28)

∙ Prayer for Kalmadi-type blokes…
Oh God forgive them for they remember not what they have done!

(July 25)

∙ The Congress has finally hit out strongly against terrorism!
(Key: Diggy Raja=Raja Harishchandra. RSS=Terrorists. Slap=Retaliatory Action.)

(July 18)

∙ Somewhere in Wonderland…
Alice Kingsley: I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Somewhere in India…
Diggy Raja: I try to say as many as six impossible things before the last Press Conference.

(July 12)

∙ In Facebook, you can be a friend without really knowing a person.
You can have a 100 mutual friends despite being absolute strangers.
Like pen friends, what are we?
Mouse friends? Keyboard friends? News Feed friends? Wall friends? Status friends?

∙ Cabinet Reshuffle: DMK eyeing Minister of State for Home.
Reason: All its Ministers have left their Home State for Tihar Jail…
…and prisons come under the above-mentioned ministry.

∙ Emraan Hashmi movies look really good.
Fresh heroines, great songs and different plots.
I probably would have watched all of them had it not been for Emraan Hashmi.

(July 9)

∙ Foreign coach: Never give up on Hope!
First Indian athlete: Woh kya bola re? Accent gadbad hai.
Second Indian athlete: I think… Never give up on dope!

∙ Yesterday: India was a nation of no-hopers in Sports.
Today: It desperately wants to be a nation of no-dopers!

(July 8 )

∙ Trillion Rupee Babies…
Holy Wealth: Padmanabhaswamy Temple
Scam Maker: A Raja
Tax Evader: Hasan Ali
While temples are desi, for the rest, its Indo-Swiss bhai bhai!

(July 7)

∙ Lokpal to be renamed Netapal as it will end up protecting politicians instead of the people.
Corrupt log pal pal bach gaye!

∙ The only “natural” thing for Ghulam Nabi Azad and his government is men having shady deals with other men (MSDM). Any absence of that is a “disease” which has to be cured. Example, Anna Hazare.

(July 5)

∙ The Indian version of Waiting for Godot is Waiting for Lokpal.
Conceived in 1969, yet to be born even in 2011.
Veerappan and Prabhakaran were caught in lesser time.

∙ Like Google+ our politicians should launch a social networking site called Corruption+

(July 4)

∙ Novak is the Serbian word for new.
Djokovic means following after.
Looks like a “New” age of competition will “Follow after” the Federer-Nadal era of monotony.

(July 3)

∙ World cricket is a closed loop.
BCCI = Board of Control of Cricket in ICC.
ICC = India’s Cricket Council.

(July 1)

© Sunil Rajguru

Post Assembly poll filmi musings…

Mamata: Guzaarish hai ki mere paas Railways rahe.
Sonia: Hmmm… waise bhi tumne Railways ko Guzaarish ka Hrithik bana ke chhod diya!
West Bengal: Arre! Guzaarish ka Hirthik to hum ban ke raha gaye 34 saal main!
Mamata kya hai, koi na jaane…
Dawa hai ya
euthnasia?
Jald pata chalega…

Jaya: Ab yahan ke hum Sikander, chahe to kar le Karuna, Kani wagere ko apne jail ke andar…

Buddha: Hum Dono Ghayal ho gaye re!
Karuna: Chinta mat kar, Indian voter ko Ghajini ki tarah short term memory loss hai, agle elections tak sab bhool jaayenge.
Buddha: Sahi re! Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna!

Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechuri and Buddhadeb decided to unwind in India Coffee House.
They were discussing Bollywood films.
A bearer came and was asked, 3 Idiots dekha kya?”
The bearer replied, “Wohi to dekh raha hu abhi!”

Sonia Gandhi at the Centre.
Jayalalitha from the South.
Mayawati and Shiela Dixit from the North.
Mamata Banerjee from the East.
Pratibha Patil from the West.
Now Showing: Mother India

Now showing in Chennai for 20 years and running…
Kabhi Karuna Kabhi Amma

Golmaal 1: Adarsh
Golmaal 2:
CWG
Golmaal 3:
2G
Coming soon: Golmaal 4, will be released before the 2012 elections.

Singh is King gaya tel lene…
Ab bolo…
Amma is Queen
Didi is Queen

etc

Overheard…
Congress to DMK: Hum Aapke Hain Kaun?

Now Showing in Kolkata…
My Name is Communist
(And I am not a failure!)

Coming in 2012
Voters: The Chase Begins Again

© Sunil Rajguru