funny and punny

  Funny: Vijay Mallya has all the ‘time now’ to face ‘Financial Times’ in London Punny: Of course, he neither had ‘time then’ nor the face for a face-off with ‘garrulous Goswami’ F: Timid questions with an equally timid and deadpan expression, FT’s interview looked more like a boring debate on an even more boring topic! P: Which Mallya answered with a face as straight and a mind as crooked F: in the interview, he had the temerity to claim he had done no wrong P: what if he ‘defaulted’ on remitting taxes collected to the government F: It matters little that he ‘wilfully defaulted’ on paying salaries to his own ‘desi-employees’ leaving them ‘de-spirited’ P: While he was all caution when he ‘wilfully’ settled all the claims of all the overseas employees F: Mallya claims there is ‘haste’ in process P: He is right – what if it took 6-7-8 years to be ‘hasty’. Government authorities knew of non-remittance of taxes, PFs years ago. F:You mean, there was ...

  Funny: Vijay Mallya says he won’t get a fair trial in India Punny:How unfair particularly when he had a ‘you-scratch-my-back-i-scratch-yours’deal F:the deal which ensured the ‘great escape’ to London, was it a fair deal? P:Even as the hapless bankers   were pleading in the court for his detention and suspension of his passport, Mallya was laughing his way to airport F:Leaving the bankers with egg on their face P: And you call them professional bankers? F: Na, more like a bunch of jokers, seriously P: A consortium of Bankers with ‘blinkers-on forever’ F: consider the sequence of events – Mallya, sans the battery of giggling beauties, in broad daylight, with a truckload of baggage, bidding an eternal goodbye to India and at about the same time bankers pleading with the court for his detention and revocation of passport!! P: Comedy of errors or errors of comedy? F: I reckon both P: Are you suggesting a ‘wilful’ deal to turn a nelson eye t...