India has a huge population of monkies – Pakistan
What happens when an Indian monkey strays across the border from one country to another?
If you consider it is only a monkey, then no problem. But, when the two nations have a doubtful relationship, a stray monkey will not be any ordinary monkey business.
I read the news that almost a month back, on November 19th to be precise, an Indian monkey strayed into Pakistan border at the Rahim Yar Khan.
It has prompted a Pakistani official quip “India has a huge population of monkeys and often when they are hungry they head towards Pakistan”.
Animal rights activists in India have asked for this particular monkey to be released in the wild. However, the Pakistani officials have stated “monkeys are usually naughty and they can harm civilian population”.
One more official has said that there is a request for this monkey to be set out but there was another monkey which strayed into Pakistan few months back but no one has asked for its repatriation.
I do not know if the above statements are loaded and one has to read between, behind and in front of the lines.
I got the following doubts:
1. Was he using up the opportunity to refer all Indian population Monkeys? Note that right now Andrew Symonds is in India for Big Boss and he is part of the Indian “floating” population. Should this statement warrant any action by ICC against Pakistani Cricket Board?
2. Did the Pakistani official mean food scarcity in India as the reason for high food inflation when he said “hungry monkeys look to Pakistan for food?”.
3. Do they indirectly mean that Indian population is all monkeys and they are all naughty and uncivilized while the Pakistani population, even those who live in the wild, are all civilized?
4. India has asked for repatriation of one monkey but has not asked for another. I hope there is not even a remote connection between the release request for the second monkey and ……… (I do not want to offend Mr. Kapil Sibal and get into trouble!)
Read the full story here: http://news.yahoo.com/monkey-business-india-pakistan-191129462.html
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When I was doing CA, I was writing an Internal Audit Report. There was a spelling mistake in one of the complex words that I had used in that report.
My boss pointed out that and I explained to him “I know the spelling, but I made the mistake in my haste complete the report”.
He continued reading the report and found the same word once again used with the same wrong spelling.
He looked at me and said “There is consistency! you don’t know the spelling for this word, admit it!”.
I remember this incident whenever I make a mistake in spelling. (I can hear you saying “oh that means you remember this multiple times in a day”).
I remember that incident now, when I look at the title for this post wherein I have not spelled “Monkeys” correctly.
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