Sound and Fury

[Guest guest]

Sound and Fury

Recently, India has been in the news for various people angry against the

system and fasting. Some people in the opposition were angry against the

fasts and fasted. And also some people were plain angry and not fasting but

travelling in a fast AC van called a rath, or should it be called the wrath?

Thus India has become the land of the Fast and the Furious.

In unrelated news, the Government of the Netherlands has decided to impose a

tax on fat leading people to try to store as much fat as possible in the

fridge. Some wondered whether they now would be taxed for their fat wives or

husbands and wondering if a larger fridge was necessary to accommodate their

spouse, leading to the land of the Fat and the Furious.

In another unrelated news, the Ignoble prize, which is awarded each year for

the least useful research, was awarded to a study conducted to evaluate the

effect of suppressing natural urges like peeing and flatulence in decision

making. Thus the Fart and the Curious award.

And in a totally unrelated incident, Shohaib Akhtar published his book

during Gandhiji's birth weekend, which should have been called " My

experiments with 'the' truth " or better still: the Past and the Spurious!

-Kishore Shah

(from my newspaper column 'Mahahabharat')