Author: Smt_Radha_Rajan <radharajan7@hotmail.com>
Publication: Hindu Vivek Kendra
Date:
Introduction: Joint Secretary, VIGIL,
A Public Opinion Forum, Chennai
We hear that three clowns traveled
abroad to Pakistan a few weeks ago to stage a comedy to entertain the self
anointed President of Pakistan and his faithful.
We also hear that the Great Dictator
was so impressed with their performance that he is still laughing and has
promised to recommend their names for the Nobel Peace Prize.
'Vigil' thinks they deserve it too
in keeping with the tradition of awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to those
who have waged wars in their respective areas and countries of work.
Musharraf is also reported to have
thanked them over dinner for their enlivening comic performances and has
invited them into Pakistan without a visa anytime they wished. Which suited
our footloose "mobile independent republic" just fine considering she doesn't
believe in nations and national borders although she doesn't squirm much
every time she is forced to touch her Indian passport when she has to travel
abroad to perform her one-woman comedy act or to collect some foreign moolah.
What they said:
Pooh Ram, The clown with the little
brain:
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This clown's brain shrinks by a
milli meter every time he suffers mental indigestion leading to a verbal
purge.
'India should not have taken advantage
of the 1971 situation. Similarly, you can't threaten war under the cover
of December 13. "Our present government is a party of national chauvinism
which represents a danger to India domestically and in the neighbourhood'.
Pinocchio Shekhar, The clown with
the growing nose :
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This clown's nose grows by an inch
every time he uses pretentious words that no one understands. He can keep
his nose in check only when he uses words of one syllable.
"India is an imperfect democracy
and Pakistan is an imperfect dictatorship. India has not been able to achieve
the level of prosperity a genuine democracy would have acquired. Similarly,
Pakistan has not sunk into the depth of chaos a genuine dictatorship would
have got a country into".
(The Butcher Of Kargil was so flummoxed
by this verbosity that he has assured this clown that the next time he
visited Pakistan, he would find that it was indeed a perfect dictatorship
and a genuine dictatorship. The wannabe Perfect Dictator has appointed
Shekhar the Clown, the official Pakistani Court Jester)
Carry Arundhati, The Footloose Clown
with the hatchet:
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This clown buys herself a new hatchet
every time some one offends her sense of self-righteousness. The last time
she used the hatchet she was thrown into the Tihar jail by the Supreme
Court for using real hatchets in her comic shows.
Two years ago in Chennai, this clown
had declared herself to be a "mobile independent republic" where she used
the hatchet against Pokharan II.
I have that hatchet with me still
as a momento of the best comic lines I had heard in a long time.
In Pakistan she had declared: "If
I had had prior information that India was going to send nuclear missiles
into Pakistan, I would be here in Pakistan to receive them".
Pakistan's national English daily
reports that the Great Dictator was not amused by this hilarious one-liner
and has told the hatchet wielding clown not to announce to the world, and
definitely not to announce to India, the next time that she intends to
visit Pakistan.
Saddened by the decreasing numbers
among the audience in their comic shows in India, and encouraged by the
Pakistani audience rolling on the floor, clutching their stomachs, as the
ultimate gesture of appreciation for their comedy act, the trio has decided
to visit Pakistan every third month.
The last that was seen of them,
we hear they are busy recording thunderous applause to play it safe the
next time they visit Pakistan. Next stop, USA.
