India is funny

So recently I've found a lot of pretty hilarious India-humor. I heard from a friend that the last Simpsons episode featured Mr. Burns outsourcing his plant to India and Homer moves to Bangalore, titled "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore."

They must've come to India to do research, cuz this is so accurate it's scary

How I feel everyday in India

Here is a hilarious article on Slate entitled "Trying Really Hard to Like India" that's intensely funny, at least for me. One of my favorite passages:

But other pitches were not as well-crafted. For instance, there was this guy who smiled weakly and asked us, with a halfhearted shrug, "Monkey dance?" Our eyes followed the leash in his hand, which led to the neck of a monkey. The most jaded, world-weary monkey I've ever seen. The Lou Reed of monkeys. He looked like he was about to sit down, pull out his works, and shoot a big syringe full of heroin into his paw. Needless to say, we declined the monkey dance—which I'm guessing would have been some sort of sad, simian death-jig.

Here's the full article


Here's an Onion article about India that was posted in the last few days:

Air India Now Offers Business Caste Seating

When did India become the butt of so many jokes? And why did it take this long? This place is funny, and not enough people realize that. When it comes to India, everyone talks about the gravity of the situation when really they should be looking for how we can use these scenarios to laugh at a culture very different from our own.

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