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We are truly a laughable lot
We Indians are singularly humourless people who find it difficult to laugh unless it is prescribed by a doctor and administered as a dose good for our health. Go to any park in any city and you will see middle-aged men and women with long, sad faces looking as if they had just broken away from a funeral procession for a few minutes to rest their feet before rejoining it. They line up on a lawn like soldiers on drill and await their leader's command to begin their exercise. He raises one arm; they fall silent. He brings it down with a jerk, they start laughing: hee, hee, hee haw, haw, haw and bray like donkeys for full fifteen minutes. Their leader raises his hand again. They fall silent. Put back their long, sad faces, break lines and rejoin the funeral procession.
