1. Cigarette : A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool at the other.

2. Love affairs : Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five day test.

3. Marriage : It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master

4. Divorce! : Future tense of marriage

5. Lecture : An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either".

6. Conference : The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

7. Compromise : The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

8. Tears : The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power ..

9. Dictionary : A place where divorce comes before marriage.

10. Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees later on.

11. Ecstasy : A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before.

12. Classic : A book which people praise, but do not read.

13. Smile : A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

14. Office : A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

15. Yawn : The only time ! some married men ever get to open their mouth.

16. Etc. : A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.

17. Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

18. Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.

19. Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.

20. Philosopher : A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.

21. Diplomat : A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

22. Opportunist : A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.

23. Optimist : A person who while falling from Eiffel Tower says in midway "See I am not injured yet."

24. Pessimist :- A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, Instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.

25. Miser : A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.

26. Father : A banker provided by nature.

27. Criminal : A guy no different from the rest... exce! pt that he got caught.

28. Boss : Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.

29. Politician : One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.

30. Doctor : A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills.

31. Computer Engineer : One who gets paid for reading such mails......

DC bro, the daffynishuns are hilarious !

On another tack, I am gratified and encouraged to see the growing body of work in the writer's guild. We have some prolific contributors emerging, and yet others testing the waters. Hopefully, the guild provides a supportive and welcome environment that encourages creativity and is inclusive of a wider range of emerging talent.

Pursuant to our conversation earlier this summer, I continue to develop the idea of a writer's workshop. Towards which end I am putting in some behind the scenes legwork. Last weekend the Smithsonian ran a South Asian writer's forum. I rushed over as soon as I heard about it, but was disappointed I missed Arundhati Roy by minutes. Neverthless, my ambitions rise yet further for our creative talent.

As we see more people overcome their inhibitions and allow their creativity free rein, I dare say the best is yet to come. And I take this opportunity to thank you for your timely comment, in another thread, and support of progressive ideas.

A great weekend to you. Cheers !

>14. Office : A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

मलाई यो मन पर्यो यार!

Boss : Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early

dude you touch my heart.........................this is what i am like?


man i cant stop laughing man
hahahahahahaha

f.....king wicked

Cigarette : A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool at the other.
DC dude, this is a million dollar slongs -- Hey you can make bucks out of it..

Sajha Writer's Guild has been very welcoming in giving opportunities to water-testers like me :) I dont know about others, but i need a lot of discipline to keep me moving...

Czar, the writer's workshop is a great idea. But if you want the workshop to be inclusive of Sajha writers, as you mentioned above, may be an online workshop is a better idea, provided Sajha is willing to host it. My assumption is that Sajha writers hail from different corners of the world and a regular physical workshop might be difficult if creativity keeps flowing into the Guild so rapidly :)

If the administration approves of it, Sajha can have a little section for a workshop where readers can post their comments. On a more productive note, writers can gather in a virtual room and give sincere critiques of each other's articles. Critiques that will find loopholes in their writings so they dont make the same mistakes again. If writers are seriously considering this hobby to mould it into a talent someday, I dont think they would want to be bogged down by little achievements; I bet they wouldnt mind some negative feedbacks, I wouldnt.

Like, Jewel's story. I dont have the right to comment, but just wanted to spill it out. It was very moving, sunkoshi jhandai bagya (like someone said somewhere), but that the writer kept his emphasis on mother's undivided love for her only son while her love for the daughter was completely ignored, which is kind of unnatural. And mother, father and son sitting together drinking wine was a little jerky when the readers were all the way walked through the portrayal of a motherly love.

Sitara's story (I dont dare comment) but yea, you can throw rotten eggs later :) It was a nice piece, unlike mine, it has things moving, I can see things happen, like in real life. But lacks imagery and sometimes things arent descriptive, which makes it feel like the story is pacing and has ended abrubtly.

La, mero dui paise comments, no offense to the writers.

And thank you Czar for your interest. A person who doesnt write cannot be so interested in such workshops, ani khai ta, when will we have the privilege of reading your pieces?

DCkeTa Loved it. though I had read quite a few of them before.
Here's some from my collection from the Sunday Times back in the days: :P

Girl: addition of cases, subraction of pocket money, multiplication of worries and division of friendship

Malaria: shivering caused by the doctor's bill

politician: one who's ready to give up your life for his country :P

secretary: one who can tell by the caller's name whether or not the boss is in!

education: forcing abstract ideas into concrete heads

nurse: one who wakes u up to give u a sleeping pill.

n here's my ultimate favorite :)

Dating: It all starts with hating, then after some waiting, when you are up on the rating, your first step to mating, which involves some baiting, is what they call dating :D
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btw, about sajha guild, I think its a great venture. Not only because of writers like dipika, MG and others, but the fact that your articles don't get lost into oblivion (archive in this instance).

>politician: one who's ready to give up your life for his country :P

लेख्न पायो भन्दैमा JPT लेख्दिने? हद हुन्छ यार सबे कुरामा।