Category: Limericks

India Marching On

As we celebrate 75 years of independence the future is bright but the journey is long to get to a middle income country status which, I have been hoping, is a milestone that will be achieved in this generation.

The Prime minister in his Independence Day address from the ramparts of Red Fort implored people to aim big and have pride in the past and put forth the goal of being a developed nation when India turns 100 as a free country…

Today, at 75 as the nation awakens 

From the ramparts the leader reckons

To dream big we aren’t at all shy

And we’ll have our head held high

For at hundred a developed nation beckons 

A Repentant Husband

A fight between a husband and wife is quite normal and when things go a bit far – as it happened with our man – the persuasion required to patch up would be that much more. In one such aggravated fight a woman left her husband and went  away to her parents place. Desperate to get her back he needed a few days off to plead with her to return with him and now the whole world knows the reason when contents of the leave letter  went viral.

The man from UP was going through a patch rough

What with  the wife going  away following a scruff 

To go and plead with her is a must you see

With all facts a leave application put in did he

And now the whole world knows his ask wasn’t a bluff

Let Love Conquer All

Any news concerning Russia and Ukraine, we would imagine, would be of war. However, a news article went viral where a Russian man and a Ukrainian woman entered into a wedlock in the pleasant climes of Dharamshala, India, which has warmed many hearts.

While  the neighbours harden their stand

With  the unending war in the heartland

In a ceremony right at our hillside 

The Russian, Ukrainian groom & bride

Solemnly decided to hold each other’s hand

Where’s My money Honey

The perils of unknown dating are well known. Our man had a heartache when the “woman” he befriended on a dating site not only left him – virtually – but took away all his money through fraudulent crypto-currency transactions.  

Sajjad thought his life would now be sunny

Finding from the dating app his honey

Alas it was but a crypto trap

Now he’s left with just  a scrap

For she stole not his heart but his money

Stand Up Meetings, er Sleeping

In Japan we do know that not only are the working hours long and people are stressed out but they also have many a weird idea. One such thought came to light recently. A design firm has conceptualised and built stand-up nap boxes where employees can stand and sleep – wonder why anyone would want to do that!? But, remember it is Japan and, for all you care, it may be a great hit. https://m.economictimes.com/news/new-updates/coming-soon-nap-boxes-for-over= working-employees-in-japan/amp_articleshow/93011464.cms

Crazy for one  to stand, sleep & chill!

On this idea please do not speak ill 

Saying it is totally flawed

This stand-up sleeping pod

For next in line is a contraption on a tread mill

I Want to Be A Chief Guest – Moo Moo

When the residents of Balehosur village in Karnataka could not convince their elected representatives to rebuild the bus shelter that was destroyed over a decade back they took the matter into their own hands. Not only did they pool in money and build a temporary shelter but – as a novel form of protest – they shunned the netas and got a buffalo to inaugurate the new structure. https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/chief-gust-buffalo-inaugurates-bus-stand= -karnataka-villagers-built-in-gadag-district-balehosur-village-article-9307= 0257/amp 

Saying a politician is but a pest

These  villagers said it is best

They built their bus bay

Keeping the netas away  

It was as well a buffalo was their chief guest