Khushwant Singh's Joke Book 7 - Desi Humour at its Best

Author: Khushwant SinghEditor(s): Khushwant SinghPublisher: Vision/Orient paperbacksYear: 2006Language: EnglishPages: 144ISBN/UPC (if available): 8122203760 DescriptionWith candor and without malice, KS is at his best in this collection of his Joke Book, a seventh in the series. It carries his selection of jokes sent to him by contributors all over the country and published in his Weekly Column in a leading Newspaper of Delhi.FROM EDITOR's PREFACE:We Indians are singularly humourless people who find it difficult to laugh unless it is prescribed by a doctor and administered as a dose good for our health. Got to any park in any city and you will see middle-aged men and women with long, sad faces looking as if they had just broken away from a funeral procession for a few minutes to rest their feet before rejoining it. They line up on a lawn like soldiers on drill and await their leader’s command to begin their exercise. He raises one arm; they fall silent. He brings it down with a jerk,