Mallu-Fide Intent

Justice Chandrachud, of the Supreme Court recently made the following remark in Court - "Let us not reduce the dialogue in this court to the level of fish market".  In doing so, he followed the example every single school teacher in India. Every school teacher has, at some point of time, compared his/her class to a fish market.  Unfortunately, Justice Chandrachud's remarks caught the attention of the fisherfolk community. They have now demanded an apology from him in open court. Thankfully, proceedings in classrooms are not made public. If that were the case, lots of sirs and madams would also have been called upon to explain themselves. A fish market is not unique in being a noisy place. Vegetable markets, fruit markets and even Sarojini Nagar are equally, if not more, noisy. Why then, are fish markets singled out by teachers and judges? It is indeed unfair. Next time fish markets get too noisy, will the fish sellers be justified in announcing ,"Kindly tal...

Hey Diddle Diddle (Wikimedia) Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed, To see such fun, And the dish ran away with the spoon Wikipedia tells us that the earliest recorded version of this rhyme dates back to 1765, when it was printed in  Mother Goose's Melodies.  We are also told that its true origins may lie at least a thousand years before that.   Now, as good, faithful folk, we all know that anything written thousands of years ago is obviously true, must be taken at face value and is sufficient reason to kill and maim each other. So here are 3 lessons from Hey Diddle Diddle : 1.  Pioneering Space Travel Which was the first animal in space? It was the cow that jumped over the moon! And here we had all been led to believe that it was Albert the monkey.  This fact, if publicised, might compel NASA to grant a pension to  cows living in shelters  such as the...