ulta pulta
Weak invention
Jaspal Bhatti

Aji ki kar rahe ho? Adhe ghante vich ik cup cha nahin bani!" My angry wife sought an explanation as to why I couldn’t make a decent cup of tea in half an hour. Hurriedly I handed over the tea to my wife who was reading a newspaper leisurely. I reminded her that it was I who should have been reading the newspaper while she, a woman, should have been fussing over in the kitchen. "Who has framed these rules and in which book are they to be found?" she snapped while sipping tea.

From the Stone Age, the woman has always been referred to as the ‘weaker sex’. They cooked food, bore children and occasionally were dragged by their hair to the caves while the men hunted. With time, women invented chakla-belans while men invented weapons. As I put forward this theory to my wife, she got furious. She asked me to go through a special report based on a study, which establishes that women might have invented weapons. The researchers have indicated that weapons might have been a female invention, which compensated for their loss in size and strength.

Most husbands would, however, agree that women don’t need any weapons to terrorise their husbands; it’s that one scowling look that does it all. One husband was heard boasting to his friend, "Do you know that I am such a terror in the house and my wife is so scared of me that yesterday I made her come down on her knees". His friend with great curiosity asked how that happened. The husband said, "I was hiding under the bed and she bent on her knees and dared me to come out."

So the weaker sex, the husbands, have definitely invented weapon for their own personal safety.

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