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Kapil’s cuts
Jaspal Bhatti

Santa Singh had a beautiful sali (sister-in-law) whose name, incidentally, was Sonia. One day he was sending her an adult joke through a web network when Banta Singh said, "Aren’t you afraid of your wife? If your sister-in-law told your wife about the lewd joke you sent her, wouldn’t she beat you blue and black? You better delete — "my dear sali Sonia." Santa said, "I need not worry, Telecommunication Minister Kapil Sibal is going to censor it anyway, and remove the name, Sonia."

Jokes apart, Kapil Sibal is actually thinking of imposing some kind of censorship, not letting any material go on to the Net that puts Soniaji, Rahulji or the Congress in bad light, especially now when the elections are approaching. If he succeeds in monitoring and cleaning the web of objectionable material through key words-based filtering and checking, all comments containing words or names like Rahul, Sonia or Manmohan would come under scrutiny.

Many people, including Ban ki-Moon and Hillary Clinton, have condemned this censorship but I think this brilliant plan of Kapil Sibal will go a long way in solving the unemployment problem in India. We should hire half of the Indian population for writing comments on social networking sites and engage the other half in removing these comments. But some people feel that the Congress should first have an internal censorship set up. It should first screen Kapil Sibal’s ideas before making them public.

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