An American tourist went to Cairo to visit the famous Polish rabbi Hafez Ayim. The tourist was surprised to see that the rabbi lived in a simple, book-lined room, in which the only pieces of furniture were a table and a bench. ‘Rabbi, where’s all your furniture?’ asked the tourist. ‘Why, where’s yours?’ retorted Hafez. [...]

An ingenious example of speech and politics occurred recently in the United Nations Assembly that made the world community smile. A representative from India began: ‘Before beginning my talk I want to tell you something about Rishi Kashyap of Kashmir, after whom Kashmir is named. When Rishi Kashyap struck a rock and it brought forth [...]

An absolute gem from Suparna! you can write to her sue195chat@yahoo.com and tell her to write more! Enjoy… Up in the hills of Nilgiri 2 miles up the winding lane Lived a mysterious hermit With a long flowing mane No one could guess his age for sure Indeed, no one even knew his name So [...]

I got this on a mail … was too funny not to post here … have a good laugh! Dear Mrs. Samsel, Over the past six months, your husband has been causing quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this behavior and have been forced to ban both of you from the store. [...]

i know i know… its really sick … but it made me laugh out loud! Jai Gurudeva! love bawa

I simply couldn’t resist this one Jai Gurudeva!lovebawa

Parsis love to laugh… here is an absolute gem! A doctor wanted to bunk his practice for a day and go out and play golf… so he got his assistant to take care of the clinic while he was away… When he returned in the evening, he asked the assistant (Johnny) how things went during [...]

Just reached Bangalore, went home and got on the net to find all those lovely comments… got some nice things to share with all of you about our journey here and some great times in Bombay will keep that for another post… Also some really nice recipes brewing 2 things i want to comment on: [...]

One fine morning, I woke up at Anjana’s house with a song in my head. I took a deep breath in and a couple of hours later, the song took birth. It came out in rap (or ‘rapchick’) style. I asked one of the best song-maker I knew, to set it to music and sing [...]

Bonus post for everyone… We spent a very very happy few hours at Vikram and Tina’s lovely little home in Kandivili… We cooked, ate, joked, laughed, edited HTML, ate more, had mango milkshake (!) (Tina keeps them frozen in her deep fridge, saved up for those times that you just HAVE to have them), watched [...]