"We cannot give out the foodgrains in the FCI godowns for free even if they rot because that would cause a fall in the foodgrain prices. Farmers would cultivate something else then. We will have to import more food. International prices will go up on our demand alone and we will have Balance of Payment difficulties again, as we used to have. That's why the PM was opposed to the Supreme Court direction. Though people die."
-An economist friend.
"So during an oil spill, oil forms a layer over the ocean, which effectively cuts off the oxygen supply to the water beneath the layer as atmospheric air now finds no avenue to dissolve in it. The oxygen content in those parts of the ocean now falls, sea animals have no oxygen to breathe and hence they undergo the process of dying"
-Chemistry teacher from school.
"Madam, how can I know if the train will come on time? I am not an astrologer"
-Railway helpline in one of its initial days.
"Why do they say 'Praise the Lord' when the priest declares that the service is over?"
-Me, at the age of five.
"But sir, amoeba is shapeless!"
-A student protesting her low marks in the science test due to lack of resemblance between the picture she drew and the one in the science textbook.
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precise and sharp!
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