Excerpt from the blog in the book...

I was inspired by the book of quotations and decided to collate my favourite ones. Here’s the first edition of recent, and decent, ones.

‘The car’s at the cleaners. The clothes are in the washing machine. The dishes are being fondled by the maid. Lather, lather, everywhere...’
- Mr. Bhattacharya, in the play ‘Madam’s Day Out’. The play was staged for a record 17 continuous weeks. Its promoters surmised that its audience was largely the housewives enjoying their day out.

‘Television directors shoot their serials in episodes--one at a time--just like serial killers. And just like serial killers, they end up murdering them. Unless of course, if the serial is good. In which case it is a killer serial.’
- Bishnu Bhatt, movie director, commenting on his foraying into small screen

‘...what kind of a human are you being?’
- Prahlad R N, eminent environmentalist, challenging the morality of climate change disbelievers. Evidently, human being is opposite of being human. Or to cite another example, mankind is opposite of kind man.

‘We should introduce sex education as an inter course.’
- P P Patel, the ho’rable education minister of our most populated state, not realizing that sex as intercourse would hardly need any introduction.

‘Country mouse: I don’t like the hustle and the bustle. I don’t like the hurried life. I don’t like to rush about all the time, meeting deadlines, achieving results, scaling success. I don’t like this rat race.
City mouse: We don’t have a choice. We are the rat race.’
- excerpt from The Rat Race, latest animation flick

‘Your works are like your private parts. You may grudgingly accept that others’ are better but your own remain infinitely more precious to you.’
- Chaitanya Bhagwat (real name something more sedate like Mohan Lal), in a television interview while promoting his latest book ‘Nine Novel Notions’.

‘Our eminent nation has to learn to sit back straight with its legs crossed if it wants to regain its lost glory.’
- Swami Gajendranathji Baba, renowned expert on Patanjali’s yoga system, on the importance of yoga in revitalizing the health of its citizens and rebuilding the nation

‘Will nature evolve to compete with what man has managed to create?’
- The topic of a talk show debate that aired a short time ago. The underlying premise was that with the advent of high technology in animation, man’s creations are sufficiently creative to be called truly original. That is, man is no longer merely copying nature. The tide has turned in man’s favour. Will nature rise to the challenge?

‘Marriages used to be made in heaven. Now any ordinary chatroom would do.’
- A PJ doing the rounds on internet. A sign of things to come. A prophecy.

‘The fact that saying cheese brings a smile on our faces proves that man descended from mice. That, or monkeys once loved cheese.’
- Banta Sardar, generally wise and well-informed otherwise, in his e-published work titled ‘On the Principles of Natural Selection in the Evolution of Wit, alternatively, Survival of the Wittiest’

Current Mood: Laughing my heart out
Current Music: Oh Doctor, I’m in Trouble (sung by movie stars, this song is absolutely adorable)