Excuse me your Honor, dead men tell no tales!

In the court, when the statement was read,
"There's something amiss Sir," he said;
"The victim has claimed
That I am to be blamed?
How the hell could he do so, being dead?"

MSN News 30/03/08: Ever heard of a dead person's statement being recorded? Well, that's exactly what Delhi Police did to solve an accident case! Eager to show that they were on top of things, police cited in court a statement of Sheikh Azibul Khan that was curiously recorded a year after he died in the accident. Get the story here

Star-track

Munnabhai is now in doubt,
What will it be? In or out?
It seems that the star's
Going back behind bars,
While once more, his lawyers' for bail scout!


Reuters 22/10/07: Actor Sanjay Dutt returns to jail in bombings case. get the story here

Praying for money

The elderly woman said, "son,
I pray to you, lower your gun.
You see, there's a hitch
In trying to get rich
By robbing me - I am a nun!"

Yahoo News 16/08/07: Man arrested for trying to rob a nun! Get the story here

Punished

In your youth, you may feel, you can flaunt
All your powers, and that life is a jaunt,
But remember that fate,
May for years lie in wait,
And that past always comes back to haunt!

Reuters 31/07/07: Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt was jailed for six years on Tuesday for obtaining firearms from gangsters involved in India's worst bombings, ending an epic trial that transfixed the country with tales of terror and revenge. Get the story here

SIMply terrifying!

If one day you act on a whim,
And go lend a cousin your SIM,
You may just have backed,
A terrorist act -
Beware! For your fate could be grim!

ABC Online Australia 24/07/07: Detained Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef has told a close family member the extraordinary events surrounding his arrest are part of his destiny. Get the story here

Court summons Narayan Murthy

How dare you think we would be bringing
Embarrassment with our poor singing?
You've invited trouble,
Come to Court on the double.
We'll box your ears and leave them ringing!

NDTV.com 26/05/07: A local court on Saturday ordered registering of a criminal case against Infosys Chairman and Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy. The court has also issued summons to him to appear before it on June 21 in connection with a private complaint filed against him regarding his remarks on the national anthem.

After a function held in Mysore Infosys campus on April 8 which President A P J Abdul Kalam attended, Murthy had said singing the national anthem would have ''embarrassed'' company employees of foreign origin and therefore the instrumental version was played there.

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Attention please!

Too late in the day did we find
His writings showed his state of mind
Bloodbath and pain
Many lives lost in vain
And all because - we had been blind!

Guardian 18/04/07: The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing and left a rambling note raging against religion and rich kids. Read on

This makes me stop and think: Where do we draw the line between imagination, fantasy and a cry for help from a mind that is ill? Could we have averted this tragedy had we not listened with half an ear?


Related read: Arms & the man

Howzzat!

Their losses had left critics hoarse,
Coach bashing was expected of course;
But this gruesome killing,
Is indeed spine-chilling,
It has cut short a life in midcourse.

For suddenly Bob Woolmer was gone.
To foul play he succumbed as a pawn.
The murder has rocked
Cricket - left it shocked,
But they say that the show must go on!

After to rest he was laid,
Came pouring in heaps, accolade.
The same sticks and stones
That tried breaking bones,
Are hailing him - what a masquerade!


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Who let the dogs out?

The bad man said, shaking his fist :
"These 2 curs are leaving me pissed;
But be warned, I say,
Every dog has his day-
I have now put their names on my list!"

Yahoo news 22/03/07: Malaysian piracy syndicates are trying to assassinate two black labradors after the dogs helped find millions of dollars of fake DVDs and CDs, a report and officials said Thursday. Read on

Sansar Chand and Sariska

Long after the havoc in Sariska he wrought
Sansar Chand has been finally caught
It may seem strange to me and you
but his hideout's final give-away clue
Was in the number of Hindi dailies he bought!!

~news dated June 30th.