There's a comic strip titled "Golmele Ginni" (Troublesome Housewife) in Anandabazar Patrika which often gives me stuff good for belly laughs. Recently there was one strip in which the little grandchild says 'Grandma, don't you want to go to the zoo?' Pat comes the reply: 'No, I don't like the idea of buying tickets to visit my relatives...'
Life is short, uncertain, precious... it should be fun, even the dying
Different strokes
Rodin's famous Thinker, spray-painted!
'I should not be thought to be serious only when I am solemn'... Bertrand Russell
About Me
- Suvro Chatterjee
- Durgapur, West Bengal, India
- I am 61, and for 22 years now a confirmed home-bird. I read, write, teach, counsel, listen to music, exercise, watch movies, have fun with kids including my own, have tried to be a good husband, think all the time, and generally endeavour to live the good life as I have understood it. It's tough, and it's been a long trudge.
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5 comments:
It's a delight to find this now. I am laughing. That's all I can say.
Sir,
I read that part every week and they are really quite funny and true at the same time.
Regards,
Soham
Sir,
Its really funny.Can't stop laughing.
The granny bit reminded me of a joke, which I had read once upon a time and had made me grin...
An ol' wizened and wise granny on being told that they'd sent a man to the moon, replied with a, "Only one? - Hrrmph."
Sir,
Someday both your blogs are going to be documents of our times.
Aakash
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