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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Irony

The Congress, it seems, is getting rather egalitarian nowadays. The party will not tolerate feudal titles anymore says this report from the ToI:

Kunwar', `Raja', `Rani', `Begum', `Srimant' will soon stand deleted from the AICC's listings and records some 40 years after Indira Gandhi did away with privy purses in what was then meant to signal the arrival of a post-colonial egalitarian age.

Surprisingly, no mention was made of one feudal title in the article: Gandhi.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

For that last line..*applause*

too strong a reaction I know..but you said it brilliantly in one damn line!

Tarun Goel said...

A good one again :)

Anonymous said...

'Gandhi' is a surname, not a title.

mikimbizii said...

Someone forwarded your link to me.Too a peek and found it awesome and some of then really hilarious :)
ciao

Shoaib Daniyal said...

Thanks Indeah, Tarun and Mikimbizi

Anon,

In a perfect world, maybe. Not in ours.

Fully grown fuzzy Hipposaur said...

Hades, about time you penned on IPC 377

Munna on the run said...

Talking of politics and stupidity, here is something I found which you would like. A blog on environmental issues with heavy doses of sarcasm and satire.
Love the art!

http://greatindiansale.blogspot.com/

Shoaib Daniyal said...

Hipposaur,

Done!

Munna,

Like the posters. And nice to see a blog focussing on the Environment.