Cutting out red tape: At a recent book launch of a spiritual travelogue penned by former election commissioner Ashok Lavasa and his wife, former banker, Novel Lavasa, seasoned diplomat Shyam Saran (an avid trekker himself) was in his element. After pointing out that this was evidence that bureaucrats had much more to them than the boring stereotypes, Saran launched the book by cutting the red ribbon tied around it, only to quip that bureaucrats haven’t just created red tape as alleged but sometimes cut it too.
At a recent book launch of a spiritual travelogue penned by former election commissioner Ashok Lavasa and his wife, former banker, Novel Lavasa, seasoned diplomat Shyam Saran (an avid trekker himself) was in his element. After pointing out that this was evidence that bureaucrats had much more to them than the boring stereotypes, Saran launched the book by cutting the red ribbon tied around it, only to quip that bureaucrats haven’t just created red tape as alleged but sometimes cut it too.
At a recent book launch of a spiritual travelogue penned by former election commissioner Ashok Lavasa and his wife, former banker, Novel Lavasa, seasoned diplomat Shyam Saran (an avid trekker himself) was in his element. After pointing out that this was evidence that bureaucrats had much more to them than the boring stereotypes, Saran launched the book by cutting the red ribbon tied around it, only to quip that bureaucrats haven’t just created red tape as alleged but sometimes cut it too.
Tears of jet spray
While addressing his cadres, MNS chief Raj Thackeray is known to intersperse his speech with humour. During arecent speech, Thackeray recalled how he got elated when he saw a jet spray in a hotel washroom in the United States. The MNS chief said that he cried “tears of joy” after seeing it. His self-deprecatory humour saw his cadres burst out laughing.
Holding his fingers
NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar has been resorting to humour to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP. During a speech in Sambhaji Nagar, the Maharashtra leader referred to Modi’s earlier statement that he “learned politics by holding Pawar’s fingers”. Pawar’s statement that he has full faith in his fingers and will not give them to anyone to hold caused a lot of laughter in the audience.
