Hindus kill random people chanting Jai Shri ram
Muslims kill random people hailing Allah hu Akbar
Families kill their own kin in the name of honor
And Parsees not even procreate
Even though they should
On the pretext of festivals
Roads are blocked
Donations are requested (pseudonym for extracted)
And participation is made mandatory
It is all right to beat your wife in public but not kiss
A court lets a convicted rapist and a murderer out on a
parole because he did not commit any crime while he was in prison
Elections are fought on caste while the nation claims to be
secular
Your choice of a candidate in an election is between a
dacoit and a pickpocket (Said thirty years ago by the inimitable Cho Ramaswamy)
Hospitals have become so expensive that it is cheaper to die
The profession of medicine is so untrustworthy you seek a
second, third and fourth opinion
People postpone a visit to the doctor, but it must be a
#FDFS for a new film
One sees a dentist for the first time in the late twenties or the early thirties
Places of worship that are so ridiculously autonomous that
they get away with murder, literally.
Saffron and beard are the only requisites to have huge
followers
It is the girl’s fault when she is raped.
It is the child’s fault when it gets sexually abused
You are scared when a policeman approaches you
You can be a poacher, a murder accused and a serial woman
abuser and still be hailed as a hero
Toxic masculinity is revered and even a mild forward-looking
step of a woman is reviled
A city struggles to manage a flood and drought in the same
year
A family group Whatsapp is the reason why families break up
A stranger will not only give you the direction but will
escort you to the destination.
A nationwide newspaper reads like a pornographic book
School going children think that the opposite of India is
Pakistan!
People go to a hotel (and never a restaurant) to have lunch/dinner
People set up stalls to serve cold water or lemon sherbet
during hot months, for free
The car seats covered in the factory plastic sheets even
after years of use
A “No spitting here” signboard completely covered in spit
stains
A person’s first instinct on approaching a queue is how to
reach the counter without waiting
On a train journey, people offer you a three-course meal when
they find that you are traveling alone
Spirit of Bombay – Fictitious name given to the helplessness of its citizens camouflaged as resilience (after each monsoon and
bomb blast)
The first thing that people surrender at customs while
returning from abroad is their civic behavior
Your taxi driver returns your wallet and takes no reward
One does not give way to a wailing ambulance
Classical music concerts are meant to be attended, not for listening
Cable TV connection is surrendered when the child appears
for the board exam
A TV debate is when 7 people shout simultaneously
Armchair critics* outnumber people who act
(* Like the author of this blog)
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