Khatola Tribune

Operation Cobra signs up an MP to say whatever in parliament for an annual fee.
MP signs blank parliamentary forms used for submitting questions in the Lok Sabha. Aniruddha Bahal has fun with the questions:

Whether the Railway Ministry has placed any order for purchase of the Yossarian Electro Diesel engine from Germany? Is the ministry aware that the Tom Wolfe committee report in Germany has halted its induction into the Euro Rail system?

Whether the Government has given sanction for the seed trial of Salinger Cotton of Monsanto? If so, has a report been prepared on Catch 22 cotton so far?

Has the ministry lifted the 1962 ban it imposed on the book ?For whom the Bell Tolls? by Ernest Hemingway and the 1975 ban on Ken Kesey?s book ?One Flew Over a Cuckoo?s Nest? and Hunter Thomson?s book ?Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?? If so, when were the bans removed?

Whether the government is aware that a domestic flying license has been denied to Cobra Cargo for starting operations in India? Since when has Semper Sursum Private Limited, the holding company of Cobra Cargo, applied for the domestic cargo license?

Some more glorious desi journalism that would make Nikhat Kazmi proud. Vibhuti Agarwal of Hindustan Times writes about an IIT student whose boss (?!!) “recites figures for the financial year-end”. What?

“I dream about it all the time — when my girlfriend is describing her day in excruciating detail, when my boss is reciting the figures for the financial year-end or even during an episode of Will and Grace. Despite having no training or experience, I wish, I could, drive a Formula 1 car — and win. Schumacher, Raikkonen are guys just like us. Even though a Formula 1 car is a sophisticated piece of machinery that requires physical and mental toning to operate, I’m damn sure it can be tamed after a couple of practice rounds,” says Kabir Parikh, a third-year IIT student.

So you take a random phrase from the piece and Google it, and sure enough the entire article is lifed from the first Google hit — in this case from Ask Men.
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