humour

'Kailash Vijayvargiya, the national general secretary of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, on Thursday said that the construction workers at his house had “strange eating habits” that aroused suspicions about their nationality, PTI reported. The labourers were only consuming poha, a popular dish made from flattened rice, Vijayvargiya said at a seminar on the Citizenship Amendment Act in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. “I suspected these workers were residents of Bangladesh,” he said. “Two days after I became suspicious, they stopped working at my house.”...'

'First of all, a very Happy New Year to all Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Christians and Parsi residents of India. In case you’re wondering why I didn’t just say “Happy New Year to all fellow Indians”, well, I take my journalism very seriously. Like Android, I update it every day to reflect the latest laws. How could I, in post-CAA India, address all Indians as “Indians”? Until each one of you has proved to the government of India that you deserve Indian citizenship, you are nothing but ‘infiltrators’...'

'On the morning of February 13, the handle of BJP Union Minister of State for Finance and Shipping Pon Radhakrishnan began criticising the work of the government and his party on Twitter — that "working for the middle class is low on the agenda of Modi govt." Many wondered if the minister’s account had been hacked, but of course, it hadn't. His team was just the latest victim of tweeting exactly what they’re told to from a document, without actually reviewing its content... How does someone get a union minister to tweet something against the government?

'The courts will work their processes in the ‘AIB Roast’ case, but it is very rarely illegal to tell a joke, or a whole series of them, to listen to one, disseminate or laugh at one. The law does not criminalise a joke. The law cannot allow itself to be used as an instrument of suppression, of a citizen’s right to speak sense or nonsense...