I penned a limerick after seeing Elon Musk’s tweet that he was buying Manchester United but realising something was amiss I checked the follow-on tweet that it was but a joke and hence had to modify the last line…
When the target acquisition hit a wall
He decided to change the port of call
Saying a new target sighted
And got everyone united
The man-with a big-chest, er, is fooling us all
The Sonitpur traffic cop was fake
When a lot of moolah he did rake
So in came the real one
Who got him to pack and run
For in their income how could he partake
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 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
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
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
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
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
As the World, solemnly, remembers the horrific events of August 6th and 9th a plea from the future…
After whizzing through, the little boy
Amidst the clouds came the fat man
Ha, For where was the need to be coy
With so much terror that we could fan
Destroyer of worlds aren’t we the one
Quite at ease aiming at living creatures
All that was done, a simple hit and run
Behold ,we’ve erase the city’s features
As the World saw the country fall
What remained was but a living hell
Today, standing solemnly in the hall
In silence awaiting ringing of the bell
Deep beneath hear the reverberating sound
Of the future pleading not for a burial ground
Nidugondi Speak 