I tell ya peeps, I am seriously miffed!
Why did the Duchess of Sussex go to Oprah to air the dirty linen?
All Oprah did was to raise her over-eye-shadowed raccoonish eyes, toss her wild mane in all angles and say ‘What?’
Only the dhinchak background music was missing
Kinda reminded the K-Series Dramas
(Not the Korean variety you Netflix Junkie, Shudh Desi ghee version of eKta Kapoor)
The nation wants to know, wasn’t Arnab good enough?
After all, aren’t we the original ‘fair and lovely’ people for whom ‘fairer sex’ is fairer the better? And all is ‘fair’ in love and war?
What is so staggering about 17 million, that 1.7 crores?
Some trendy hashtags like ‘Peeling the Palace' or ‘Complexion Compulsions’ would have been generated, the bots could be running round the clock.
If we were lucky, Virdas could have squeezed in an episode in his #tenonten.
We aren’t counting much on Tharoor’s tweets, because truth be said, not many understand what he says!
Plus in all Vinamrata, the queen was more likely to say, ‘Yeh Archie Kaun hai’ rather than ‘Yeh Archie Kala hai?’ Senility does set in at sprightly nineties. Thankfully Oprah clarified, it ain’t Grand Poppa or Grand Mommie.
Also didn’t the original Mrs. G helm the ‘kitchen cabinet’?
Could the color-crusader be the Jethani Kate ‘Meddleton’? Waise ‘Saas Bahu’ stories with ‘Jethani and Devrani’ dynamics are our primetime entertainment.
Believe not? Jawab do, didn’t ya groove to 'rasode main kaun tha?
Chana Nikaldiye aur Khaali Cooker Chadhadiya!’
We have been Sanskarified with how much to talk and when, what to wear, how to cover, what to uncover, bend thy back till it breaks.
So we know how to survive with a '50% lesser selves!’
I tell you, we would have made her our own Meghana Merkelani and it would be ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhie Bahu Thi!’ redux.
Chalo, what’s done is done.
Since the UK Parliament wants to discuss the farmers’ protest, I suggest as return revenge, we discuss the queen and her unqueenly brood!
Discussing English cricket is so passe! They lost the plot when they agreed to play in a stadium named after the Alpha male, with one end named Reliance and the other Adani Bas Yaad Rakhe, Shuruarth ‘Pavitra Rishta’ se hota hai till it descends to ‘Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki!’
‘Kasam Se!’
AJ wants to Know what next in ‘BuckleHam Palace’?
Anupama Jain is the author of 'When Padma Bani Paula', a breezy novel about acing the second chances of life by staying true to one’s roots, and 'Masala Mix: Potpourri Of Shorts', a short story collection on the myriad manifestations of love. A community builder and an educator, Anupama is based out of Gurgram
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