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Twinkle Khanna aka Mrs Funnybones crafts satirical stories and funny fables when she is not running a design business, selling candles or running in circles around her small but rather odd family. She narrowly escaped a gruesome tragedy when Bollywood tried to bludgeon her brain to the size of a pea, but she ducked at the right moment and escaped miraculously unharmed; she is now a popular columnist as well and is currently in the process of creating lame jokes like ' Why do all Hindu boys worship their mother? Because their religion tells them to worship the cow.' She firmly believes that nothing in life is sacred except laughter. (Not even her name, which she is secretly trying to change to Chetali Bhagat so that her columns get made into movies.) Less
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An old friend comes over for coffee. This is an ancient friendship, a relic from the days when we didn’t have mobile phones and would call each other’s homes to make plans for the day…
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The Paleolithic age: Six people went to hunt down the mammoth so that the tribe could eat, three people discovered fire, four invented language and hearing the first few words, two people immediately turned their…
February 15, 2015, 5:48 AM IST
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Monday: Happy Republic Day. Obamaji arrived in India yesterday and after a joyful reunion at the airport; our Prime Minister was ready to welcome him again at Hyderabad House in a rather dashing pinstriped suit….
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It’s a cool December morning and I am cozily sprawled on a couch at my friend’s stately home in Cape Town. I see a little African boy playing with the dogs outside. He is tumbling…
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I do not make New Year resolutions any more and to answer the big ‘why’ that I can hear echoing around, let me take you on a gentle ride into the past. Jan 1, 2012:…
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Let me state at the very onset that I want Parsis to fight extinction for purely selfish reasons. It is very important to have three Parsis in your life: Your doctor, your jeweler and your…
November 30, 2014, 7:14 AM IST
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I am stumbling out of my bed at the crack of dawn because the man of the house has decided that he can’t find his Mudgal (an enormous wooden club) that he swings around his…
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