Guess Which Plays Our MPs Are Reading …
Best Read Plays in India
The Parliament Library is one of the richest repositories of books in India, and was established in the year 1921 to assist members of the Indian Legislature. These days, with the number of adjournments and walk-outs, it seems our MPs have nothing to do. So they make a dash to the Parliamentary Library and instead of autobiographies, biographies or monographs, they are reading plays.
According to “unconfirmed, totally basless reports”, this is what they are reading.
Absolute Hell as read by Manmohan Singh
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as read by Somnath Chatterjee
Happy Days as read by Pratibha Patil
Endgame as read by Prakash Karat (since he is not a member, he borrowed the play on Sharad Yadav’s membership card)
Look Back in Anger as read by George Fernandes
Much Ado About Nothing as read by Pranab Mukherjee and Arjun Singh
The Caretaker as read by Sonia Gandhi
Waiting for Godot as read by L K Advani
Death of a Salesman as read by Amar Singh
Long Day’s Journey into Night as read by P Chidambaram (especially, Budget nights)
Shantata, Court Chalu Ahe as read by Arun Jaitely and Kapil Sibal
King Lear as read by Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The Entertainer as read by Laloo Prasad Yadav
Charandas Chor as read by Natwar Singh
No Man’s Land as read by P A Sangma
The Homecoming as read by Mukhtar Ansari
Andha Yug as read by Bengaru Laxman (since he is not a member, he borrowed the play on Babubhai Katara’s membership card)
Hamlet as read by Omar Abdullah
Good Woman of Schezuan as read by Mamta Bannerjee
Karnabharam as read by Ram Vilas Paswan
Playboy of the Western World as read by Vijay Mallaya
Accidental Death of an Anarchist as read by Shibhu Soren
The Iceman Cometh as read by Narendra Modi (since he is not a member, he borrowed the play on Shankersingh Vaghela’s membership card)
Blithe Spirit as read by Sushma Swaraj
Exiles as read by Mani Shanker Iyer
Comedians as read by Govinda & Shatrugan Sinha
Tughlaq as read by Pappu Yadav
Betrayal as read by Ajit Singh and by Dayanidhi Maran prior to that
Oh What a Lovely War as read by Jaswant Singh
Man and Superman as read by Dara Singh and Sharad Pawar
Moteram Ka Satyagraha as read by Brinda Karat
Zoo Story as read by Menaka Gandhi
Dance Like a Man as read by Hema Malini
The Royal Hunt of the Sun as read by all the Congress MPs; excluding Rahul Gandhi
Ashaad Ka Ek Din as read by A B J Kalam
(First published on 28th August, HT Cafe. Hindustan Times, Mumbai)
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Hilarious!!!
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awesome! then i guess it’s time that us citizens start reading “victimes du devoir”
… and the *duty* being the vote.
Mast!!! :d:d
And Trishanku By the whole Parliament!Sahi hai biddu..
This is wonderful list. Holi is not near then how and why some one played/created this joke?:)
MPs themselves will laugh.around 35 MPs are using their hands on Plays!!!
They will send Naseeruddin Shah etc on vacation if these guys come on the stage.
Its a joke but even if they issue books then so many times it can be possible that books are issued for the family members of MPs.
It can be totally funny also because Narendra Modi taking book on Shankar Singh Vaghela’s card? Thats so odd to accept. Vaghela left BJP as a rebel and now he must be MP from Congress party. Neither of them will take this risk of showing so much bonhomie.
Though some combinations are amusing. Vijay Mallya – Playboy….., Amar Singh- Death of Salesman, Lalu YADV- Entertainer. amusing :d :d
Brilliant
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Aadhe Adhure by Mulayam Singh Yadav
HILARIOUS!!:((
man this was hilarious
LOL….. death of a salesman….amar singh…brilliant
Fantastic..
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Ramu…damn good one….:d:)):))…frwded it to all my freinds. Btw, what r u reading ?
Thank you for all your comments. Am happy that we, me and PFC havent been dragged to court. ;)
Was underground trying to grapple with a play about JAZZ in Bombay / Bollywood. Thats over and done with it.
So Phoneix to answer your query; no reading just anguish and agony that all of us go through. Of course, this time I kept three of my bibles next to me: Borges / Beckett / and Bleak House by Dickens.
Ramu: a play about Jazz in Bombay…!
Thats interesting. Is it possible for you to cover something about the said play?:-?
Awesome list!
hilarious!
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