Funny Side (Hopefully) Up

Harvinder Chowdury, a Sikh lawyer, has filed a Public Interest Litigation demanding that the courts ban Sardarji jokes. The courts, much more worryingly, have actually decided to take this seriously. Apparently, they're going to decide if the jokes "offend the Sardar community." Personally, I think this is a bit much. I mean, are you seriously going to go out and ban Sardarji jokes? Also, Sardarji jokes have been around for ages. How come all of a sudden, people are offended? Why is it a big deal in the first place? I mean, there are tons of communities out there who have jokes made about them. Take, for example, the rednecks. Rednecks don't shoot people for making jokes about them. Rednecks just generally shoot people. But that's neither here nor there. According to Ms. Chowdury, Sardarji jokes are a violation of the Sikh community's right to equality with other communities. I actually have a theory about equality where jokes are concerned. It is that if ...

Last week, I wrote a blog post about a project which we decided to take up called A Thousand Smiling Faces  . Between then and now, the most important thing we've managed to do is contract "A Thousand Smiling Faces" to "1K:)". We also managed to deliver 1085 burgers to kids in orphanages around the city. We began collecting money around 8 days ago. After several Facebook posts, two blog entries, God alone knows how many emails and hours spent walking from house to house asking people to donate, we managed to raise over  ₹1,00,000. The meals themselves cost us  ₹86,500 (McDonald's gave us a 20% discount on the grounds that it was charity), which leaves us with approximately  ₹10,000 behind the loose brick. I intend to use the  ₹10,000 to buy a  Jacuzzi  do another set of deliveries after the 16th of January, once my exams are finished.  The project involved over 20 of my friends (and friends' friends) and 15 orphanages. We had at least...