Many famous humour writers advise thus – ‘Do not use clichés.’ I say, ‘stuff and nonsense’. Our very existence is clichéd… Please allow me to buttress my argument with two examples. Beauty contests and Chief Guests. Let Us Start With Beauty Contests Most of you dear readers, would have watched…
Month: April 2026
Military Housing: Tales of Maintenance Guys (MG) and Fauji Struggles
Life in the Armed Forces is, like I have said many times earlier, pretty good. Excellent camaraderie, a reasonable work life balance and military housing that has converted the poet Longfellow’s words – ‘into each life some rain must fall’, into policy. The rain for example, doesn’t just fall. It…