Ulta Pulta
Out of orbit
Jaspal Bhatti

MY son came running to me and said "Papa do you know Pluto has now been shunted out of the list of the planets?" I asked, "Why? Was it holding an office of profit?"

"Oh come on Papa! It has been disqualified by the jury of world astronomers and scientists because apart from its small size it didn’t have a clear-cut path around the sun," he said.

"Achcha, achcha, I understand beta. Like BJP leaders Madan Lal Khurrana and Uma Bharti who were also not in the right orbits around the high command had to be removed. But son, we have had a long association with Pluto since childhood. They could have retained it somehow".

My son, a science student, explained if the scientists had retained Pluto, they would have had to promote a couple of other small planets like Xena.

I said, "Then what? If Capt Amarinder Singh could promote several ADGPs to DGPs just to make Virk Sahib DGP, then scientists could also follow the same".

A woman went to an astrologer. After he told her future, she took out Rs 80 from her purse. The astrologer said, "Don’t you know my fee is Rs 100?" The woman said, "Panditji, since the planets have been reduced to eight, you should also reduce your fee!"





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