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I watched a short film called Manoranjan. The story is about a lady telling elaborate lied to a house guest about how her mother in law is dead and how her husband is unable to accept the fact. Then the boy sees the old lady washing her face in the bathroom and bolts out of the door with his bag.  

The story should have been funny. It was funny in a similar story by Saki. But we Indians want to add lot of emotional drama to it. And the film tells us the lady is mentally unbalanced and is on medication. Come on, can't we be just funny?

On to Saki - when the only funny person I knew was Jeeves and P.G. Wodehouse. Good old days, good old days. We did not find the politicians of our opposite side very funny - we just ignored all of them. Search for humor books gave me Saki - Victor Hugh Munro. Not a Japanese writer - just his pen name. 

But just like Wodehouse, his stories revolve around rich English men and women who have all the time to kill.  

OK, downloaded Westminister Alice from Gutenberg. Only thing remaining is to read it. On to it. Shall we? 

 

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