Farrukh Dhondy

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Farrukh Dhondy

The new Almighty

“How many roads must a man walk down
Before he wears out his shoes?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Fuelled by a single bottle of booze?”

No amnesty for dissent

“They say ‘count your blessings’
I counted my losses —
The former were noughts
The latter were crosses”.
From Half Empty Glass
by Bachchoo

Feb.20 : Gita Sahgal is a brave woman and a friend. She is the gender equality officer of Amnesty International and I presume devoted her time to seeing that women prisoners get as fair a deal as men. She has been suspended by Amnesty for speaking out.

Corpses with teeth

“He wrote an epic Called Tale of the Tub Which was just one word It was Rub-a-dub-dub”.
From Bachchoo ka
Bachpanna

Feb.13 : Teaching yourself a language from a guide book or a tourist pamphlet can be a hazardous business. My German, for instance, is not up to scratch. I pride myself in having done one formal course for a couple of idle weeks in my boyhood in Pune. I had abandoned chemical engineering college in Mumbai in favour of a career doing nothing and attempting to write deathless prose in imitation of Lawrence Durrell — an enterprise which in turn came to nought — and had been induced by furious parents and aunts to “do something useful”.

The ganja hypocrisy

Feb 06 : "Examine the lives of those who tell us how to live, Survey the desert for flowers…" From Bachchoo Agonistes

An Academy of Islam

"God is light

And we’re paying the electricity bill."

From Sayings by Bachchoo

To

The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair

Ex-PM-in-Waiting

Dear Tony,

I don’t suppose any British paper will give me the space for the following view. The UK media has maintained a conspiracy of misunderstanding, muddle and whistling in the dark when confronted with the most serious threat to British civil society in our times.

Democracy: A vote for nation, caste, religion?

"Opiates are the religion of the masses!"

From Bachchoo’s Das

Sassural (Vol. I)

Augest.08 : Tony Blair’s press secretary said "we don’t do God". He thought it would sound eccentric if Tony began, as American Presidents do, to call on the grace of the Almighty. They praise God and sanction the ammunition.

A vicious problem exists in Australia

"I cried because I had no shoes

Then I saw a girl with high-heeled Jimmy Choos

The sort of clogs I’d get if I was able

— er… I think something’s gone very wrong with this fable…"

From Proverbs of Perdition by Bachchoo

Sept.19 : Former u.s. President Jimmy Carter, reacting to the anti-Obama demonstration in Washington this weekend at which a million people gathered to protest against his reform of the American healthcare system, said America was still "racist". He went on to explain. Even after the civil war and civil rights, there were people who did not believe that a black American could or should govern the country.

How to spell trouble in the English language

"The old know the secret

The young pretend,

Seeing the beginning

Is seeing the end."

From Handwriting Practice

by Bachchoo

July.04 : If I feel like what Emperor Nero must have felt when the thought of transference to a minor key obsessed his evening as Rome was aflame at his feet, it is because while the world is in turmoil my thoughts turn to the Cambridge University lexicographers’ announcement that henceforth spelling duznt Maturr.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.