Month: January 2008

The Shah of Entertainment

Indian cricket provides us with the best of sport and entertainment. The cricketers provide the sport; the cricket administrators provide the entertainment. The tireless and brave Prem Panicker trawls through mountains of cricket coverage every day to bring us the very best, and nothing beats this remarkable interview of Niranjan Shah, BCCI’s secretary, by Mihir Srivastava of Tehelka:

Tehelka: For the sake of argument, what is the more important criterion for selection: performance or rotation policy? Would you drop the best performing players for rotation policy?

Shah: Rahul’s performance is not there. Lakshman’s performance is not there.

Tehelka: I am talking about Ganguly. He has done well.

Shah: Lakshman has done well too.

Ignore the misspelling of VVS Laxman’s name—isn’t this just priceless? Who needs Bollywood?

Update: Actually, the excerpt quoted above isn’t remotely as funny as the last answer in that interview, which reminds me of this young lady. It is incredible. It is so good that no one could have made it up. Wow.

Are You Asian… ?

Here’s the WTF billboard of the year so far:

The website being advertised is quite disgraceful as well, promoting things like “freedom in Christ from homosexuality.” You get the picture. Sigh.

(Link via email from Lalbadshah.)

Update: P2C2U writes in to inform me that this billboard is actually a photoshopped parody of one that says, “Are you Gay or Lesbian and don’t want to be?” I therefore take back what I said about the billboard being WTF—it’s actually excellent satire.

This makes me go WTF, though.

Categories WTF

Where Your Taxes Go: 26

IANS reports:

Rising hemlines saw temperatures going up in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday with an actress’ short dress triggering a demand from the PMK for a law imposing a dress code and the ruling DMK counselling its ally that it should exercise restraint.

While the DMK advised the PMK that restraint, not the length of a skirt, was the solution, M K Kanimozhi, daughter of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and MP, was attacking the ‘hypocrisy’ of imposing a dress code on female actors elsewhere in the city.

The fundamental problem here is that our governments want to rule us, not serve us. And that negates the purpose of parting us from the taxes we pay. No?

(Link via email from Karthik. For more on what happens to our taxes, click here.)