A farewell rhyme for 2010

Scams of epic proportions in India,
Silence and then much noise on matters Radia.
Apple ne humko iPad diya.
And that Kalmadi fellow, he made lakhs ya.

Arundathi put the sexy into secede,
We saw Ayodhya play it safe and proceed,
Then Obama graced us with his presence,
As Nithyananda seduced people with incense
And the Pope fought issues with nonsense.

We were left wondering,
As we confused causation with correlation,
Do we call the rich man 'king'?
Or is the richest man called Raja, by conflation.
Oh yeah, and we also had serious inflation.

Somehow we still completed the CWG,
And before that, the DLF IPL 3.
But in neither case was the follow-up very good,
Suresh and Shashi were not sufficiently screwed.
Manmohan Singh just nodded his head and stood.

Sachin's run machine was at its strongest ever,
And the world came down with World Cup fever,
There once was a dog called Spot,
And just for fixing it, poor Pakistan were caught.
Again Manmohan did nought.

The Indian blogosphere scales new heights,
As rameshsrivats puns and krishashok writes.
(Heck, the latter even has soundbytes.)
We can now make any topic trend,
And even break media silence in the end.

Assange's leaks made headlines everywhere,
For top secret documents and then for a condom tear.
If you're leaking, you might as well leak some runs,
And give Sachin half a ton of tons.

And so 2010 is done.
If only 2011 is half as much fun.
Because anyway in 2012, we're all done.
Happy MMXI everyone.

24 hours on Twitter...

...and over 17,000 followers. That can only mean one thing - that person's name is Khan.

#chetanblocks funniest tweets

Update:

The most awesome Krish Ashok tells us how Hitler reacts to the news.



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Today was a great day to be on Twitter. Chetan Bhagat made the fourth mistake of his life when he blocked a couple of popular Tweeters on Twitter. What he didn't count on was that the Tweeters who blocked were well networked enough to start a #chetanblocks hashtag which became a trending topic in no time. Rohit documents a part of the story here.

Some classics:

Anand R.

• Nationwide search launched for Chetan Bhagat's sense of humour. No signs yet. #chetanblocks
• Why can't anyone be in Chetan Bhagat's good books? Because there aren't any. #chetanblocks
• What's the difference between a Chetan Bhagat book and a leech? The leech eventually stops sucking. #chetanblocks  
• Why did Chetan Bhagat cross the road? Because nobody could be bothered to block him. #chetanblocks  

 Ramesh Srivats

• There's no need to get scared of @chetan_bhagat. They say his block is worse than his blight. #chetanblocks  
• The first 3D Blockbuster - My dear kutti Chetan #chetanblocks  
• What do they call Chetan Bhagat in Scotland? Blockness monster? #chetanblocks  
• Please vote for @Chetan_Bhagat in the Indiblockies. #chetansblock

chuck_gopal

@chuck_gopal The two states of Chetan Bhagat right now - a lot of gas, and solid bull

Brainstuck

My company is planning to install @chetan_bhagat as firewall. #ChetanBlocks

tantanoo

Somewhere, Shashi Tharoor is heaving a sigh of relief. #chetanblocks

jhunjhunwala

Chetan Bhagat is offline,Will someone else please block me now? #chetanblocks

Some from yours truly (if I do say so, myself)

• "Er, Mr B, do you have some slimmer frocks?" "No, but I have plenty of Twitter blocks." #chetansblock #whenchetanbhagatsoldgirlsdresses  
• C'mon guys. #chetanblocks is not even trending. IS THIS THE INDIA YOU WANT!?!?

The whole universe of posts
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23chetanblocks

And, of course, the classic that started it all -

notytony

I guess this is what they call writer's block RT @chetan_bhagat @flyyoufools buddy, one more smart one and u r blocked. ok?

What a day!