Gay abandon
BY ANITA JOSHUA
India Smiles: Winning Entries from the Sulekha.com Humour Contest, Penguin, Rs. 195.
THE last week of July brought into television homes images of two girls and a lad straying into the fortified Prime Minister's residence. Immediately, channels put together discussions on national security and hours were spent pondering how India refused to learn lessons from its past; coming as the breach did just a fortnight after the Mumbai blasts.
None of the talking heads on television was even willing to explore the possibility of the incident being just an innocent mistake or at most a prank since no harm was done and no conspiracy is evident; making many an average citizen wonder what happened to "our sense of humour". Fret not, for there are some amongst us who still have a sense of humour. And, more importantly, there are some Indians who can direct their wry humour onto themselves. India Smiles: Winning Entries from the Sulekha.com Humour Contest is the testimony.
Penguin has brought out a collection of 28 of the best entries received by Sulekha.com when it organised an online contest for Indians. Contenders were asked to submit a "humorous piece of writing" and 60 out of the 5,000 entries were shortlisted by the dot.com's subscribers. The entries picked up for this collection bring out the little quirks of life that perk up an otherwise mundane existence; be it in parenting, flirting through new technology, the flip side of motherhood, match-making Indian "ishtyle"...
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