Monday, December 14, 2009

Theory

(M-Marker, T-Terminal)
I am what is around me. (M)
Women understand this. (M)
One is not a duchess (T)
A hundred yards away from a carriage. (T)
These, than are portraits: (T)
A black vestibule; (T)
A high bed sheltered by curtains. (T)
These are merely instances. (Xn)

Wallace Stevens

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Theatre of the absurd

Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today championed the cause of secularism in the country by threatening, oops, no I mean "asking" the home minister to discard the Babri demolition report given by Justice Liberhan, since not doing so will cause communal riots in the country.

"I ask the honourable Home Minister to dismiss this report. If this report remains to exist then it will provoke communal riots throughout the country," Sushma Swaraj said in the Lok Sabha today.

BJP members applauded the statement, and were unanimous in their opinion that Swaraj's deep concern for communal harmony in the country is consistent with the BJP tradition of always putting the country before the party. They said BJP leaders who are indicted by the report for inciting bloody communal riots in the country are very keen to go to jail for their crimes, but have crushed their desires in order to prevent bloody communal riots in the country.

Coming up soon: Nation erupts into uproarious laughter.