Farrukh Dhondy

Mar 31, 2010
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Farrukh Dhondy

Showers and bums

“Cool as a cucumber and not half as green.”
From Characterisations by Bachchoo 

It is, one must admit, unusual to begin a column with an allusion to bum showers. I have written about this innovative bathroom furnishing or gadget which I first came acr

Naxal tantric rituals

“Pride, a stubborn donkey Conceit, a blinded mule
The flattered never realise The flatterer is a fool”
From Mughlai Ditties By Bachchoo

Plainspeak on hills

“Underneath the lamplight
She stood those tortured hours
Waiting for the ones who knew
She wasn’t selling flowers.”
From Bictorian Bull
by Bachchoo

The devil in Bollywood

“Sauce for the goose
Costs a dollar or three -
Bismillah Hotel
Ki daal hein free!”
From Charrasology’s Chimes by Bachchoo

Mein Kampa Cola

“Consciousness is but a chain of metaphor”
From Discovered Scribbles (Ed. by Bachchoo)

Flesh trade: Pimps are real agents of evil

A 40-year-old man calling himself the Crossbow Cannibal is charged with the murder of three women prostitutes.

A veiled threat

“No man is an island
But some are pretty wet;
Leave that tempting stone unturned
You never know what you’ll get... “
From The Book of Cautions by Bachchoo

Loyal to the name

“Arrogant mortal
You won’t last long
Challenging four-armed Shiva
To games of ping pong.”
From The Proverbs
of Bachchoo

House of horrors

“When they say ‘its time
To separate sheep from goats’
It doesn’t mean that they will keep
The knife from either’s throats!”
From Bakriana by Bachchoo

Voicing dissent

“If wishes were horses,
You’d get saddled with stabling bills”.
From The Dattey Raho
Protocol by Bachchoo

May.08 : Before I knew what “USSR” stood for or indeed where it was, I was given a misleading and derisory description of Communism by a teacher and taken with the rest of my class to the school gates to join a throng of the hoi polloi and wave to the passing Nikita Khrushchev who was a guest of the Indian government of the time and had done our town the honour of passing through it.

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