1.
Someone shouting “keep quiet”
2.
Moral instruction classes in Finance, Insurance,
banking sector, investment bankers
3.
Rational and Modi / Trump / Orban / ….. in the
same sentence
4.
Girl files a case against a powerful man for
molesting her; Police arrests the girl!
5.
Jo Cox died fighting against Brexit; Boris
Johnson campaigned to get Brexit done to honor her death
a.
And won!
6.
Finance Minister said the use of Uber is the
reason for Auto sector slowdown
7.
Questions of the following types in a visa
application
a.
Have you ever funded a terrorist?
b.
Have you packed some of the forbidden stuff in
your check-in?
c.
Have you ever indulged in activities against the
government?
8.
Being mean to your family while being
considerate to strangers
9.
Everything that Trump says and does
10.
People who send a digital rose and a good
morning EVERYDAY on any of the social media (or on all of them)
a.
And expect you to reply
b.
And get offended when you do not
11.
When the menu options are Veg, Pure Veg and
Vegan. What is this Pure Veg? Then, what is Veg? (But no such flamboyance on meat – it is just
plain Non-Veg. It does not even have an identity of itself. It is non-something.
What an existential identity crisis. Why there is no Pure Non-Veg?)
12.
Beware of dog. Why? I never found dogs to be a
problem. People are my main issues. How about a “beware of people”?
a.
For that matter never a Beware of a cat or a snake
or a hamster!
13.
While driving, my spouse leaning forward and
looking to his/her side of the road when I need to take a turn; as a result, I
end up looking at the back of my spouse’s head. (There, it is gender-neutral
now, lest someone jump on me)
14.
Right-wing nationalists going bonkers on the
family group or friends’ group on WhatsApp
a.
And provide weird logic
b.
Distort history
c.
Invent new history
d.
Refuse any logic whatsoever
e.
And base all their arguments on “where were you”
“why that happened” “are we supposed to stay quiet” “we have been tolerant too
long”
15.
Educated and rational people falling for fake
news that resonate with their echo chambers
16.
Arnab Goswami
17.
Mother’s question to her children living away
from home is always “What did you have for dinner?”
a.
Even when the call is in the afternoon 😊
18.
People reading books written by other people to
practice “Self-help”
19.
How most people who watch F1 secretly desire a
spectacular crash to unfold
20.
That people still say Madonna when they mean
Maradona
21.
How regularly people in non-English speaking
countries say “Pernament”
22.
When I watch people doing math by counting their
fingers
23.
I check a flight ticket to …..(insert
country/city name here) online and immediately there are pop-up ads on every
website I visit that lasts for a few weeks.
24.
The audacity and stupidity of Amazon suggesting
me products based on my last purchase
25.
When I see the frustration of a person when his/her
sarcasm is wasted
26.
When rhetoric questions are answered
27.
Managers “seeking” opinion with leading
questions
a.
Don’t you agree?
b.
Isn’t it a good idea to…?
28.
The confidence of an Indian household on
Turmeric to cure everything
29.
Modi / Shah talking about communal harmony
30.
Iran shoots down a passenger jet and gets away (and
not even saying sorry)
31.
When people say “he/she died like a dog”
a.
What does it even mean?
b.
More frustrating when I had a dog (and loved it
dearly and lost it prematurely)
32.
The confidence of some of the people on their
TikTok videos
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ReplyDeleteWhether it amuses you or confuses you, you can't find a perfect hypocrite country like India. Enjoy the show without actually suffering
ReplyDeleteHypocrisy, like stupidity, is universal. But India does rank high on this unwanted achievement.
ReplyDeleteAwesome as always! I see that your roots are still firmly planted!!
ReplyDeleteAs in the seminal Alex Haley book, Roots are forever, right
DeleteThanks and glad you liked it