By Despondent Correspondent | Oct 15, 2012, 08.57 PM IST
NEW DELHI: In a daring robbery in broad daylight, miscreants grabbed India's sense of humour and vanished into thin air.
Not amused by the turn of events, grim-faced Cabinet ministers ordered a one-man committee headed by a retired judge to probe the robbery. Sources said the ministers wanted to laugh off the incident but couldn't. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was unaffected by the incident. "He never laughs anyway," said an unreliable source.
Growing intolerance on the streets and in the comments section of various newspaper reports also said to have been influenced by this dreadful crime. "People are even taking spoof articles as news reports," said a harried journalist.
Sources said the robbers did not manage to steal the entire payload. Some hints of the treasure still abound in the country. A thinktank ordered to study the phenomenon found traces of sense of humour in various activities, irrefutable evidence of which was in the choice of people India voted for. "Some people definitely have a sense of humour. Look at who they elected," said professor Iknow Jackshit, who headed the study.
On Sunday, law minister Salman Khurshid tried to refute the findings of this study by attempting to hold a hilarious press conference. The end-result of the experiment, beamed live across India, is still disputed.
Later, Union steel minister Beni Prasad Verma made a case for being called the "steal" minister by trying hard to make the public laugh and literally defending corruption. His party high command may not have gotten the joke.
Meanwhile, experts have blamed incidents of massive outrage related to anything remotely religious in the country on this "theft of the century".
Professor Jackshit said at a press conference: "Indians have forgotten to laugh at themselves. I believe it has something to do with a medical condition similar to constipation and can be cured over time with the use of laxatives and joke books." Watching the news, he said, could aggravate the situation.
"I believe years of corruption, crimes and soaring prices have been the mitigating factors behind this massive constipation pandemic," he added.
The professor then took a leaf from law minister Salman Khurshid's book and lashed out at a sports reporter for asking the wrong question. Apparently, bowel movement has nothing to do with swing bowling. "I'll see you in court," he screamed. Later he clarified that he was referring to a tennis court.
Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee, who lost her own sense of humour at birth, condemned the incident and said this "UPA govt won't last for more than six months".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/mocktale/Indias-sense-of-humour-stolen-probe-ordered/articleshow/16825936.cms?
NEW DELHI: In a daring robbery in broad daylight, miscreants grabbed India's sense of humour and vanished into thin air.
Not amused by the turn of events, grim-faced Cabinet ministers ordered a one-man committee headed by a retired judge to probe the robbery. Sources said the ministers wanted to laugh off the incident but couldn't. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was unaffected by the incident. "He never laughs anyway," said an unreliable source.
Growing intolerance on the streets and in the comments section of various newspaper reports also said to have been influenced by this dreadful crime. "People are even taking spoof articles as news reports," said a harried journalist.
Sources said the robbers did not manage to steal the entire payload. Some hints of the treasure still abound in the country. A thinktank ordered to study the phenomenon found traces of sense of humour in various activities, irrefutable evidence of which was in the choice of people India voted for. "Some people definitely have a sense of humour. Look at who they elected," said professor Iknow Jackshit, who headed the study.
On Sunday, law minister Salman Khurshid tried to refute the findings of this study by attempting to hold a hilarious press conference. The end-result of the experiment, beamed live across India, is still disputed.
Later, Union steel minister Beni Prasad Verma made a case for being called the "steal" minister by trying hard to make the public laugh and literally defending corruption. His party high command may not have gotten the joke.
Meanwhile, experts have blamed incidents of massive outrage related to anything remotely religious in the country on this "theft of the century".
Professor Jackshit said at a press conference: "Indians have forgotten to laugh at themselves. I believe it has something to do with a medical condition similar to constipation and can be cured over time with the use of laxatives and joke books." Watching the news, he said, could aggravate the situation.
"I believe years of corruption, crimes and soaring prices have been the mitigating factors behind this massive constipation pandemic," he added.
The professor then took a leaf from law minister Salman Khurshid's book and lashed out at a sports reporter for asking the wrong question. Apparently, bowel movement has nothing to do with swing bowling. "I'll see you in court," he screamed. Later he clarified that he was referring to a tennis court.
Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee, who lost her own sense of humour at birth, condemned the incident and said this "UPA govt won't last for more than six months".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/mocktale/Indias-sense-of-humour-stolen-probe-ordered/articleshow/16825936.cms?
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