Monday, February 3, 2014

Airlines offer “Accent on Arrival” for Indians going abroad

London, UK. After their “Double your Check-in luggage” program, British Airways has pioneered this time with other like-minded Airlines like Continental and Virgin Atlantic to offer an “Accent on Arrival” program on their flights.


The purpose of this program would be to help Indian students, who move abroad for greener pastures, gain an American or British accent so that they could record videos to send back home and speak better on Skype and Google+.


“Indian students can get even better grades, and professionals can get better performance, if they save time getting that accent,” Anthony, the program director of “Accent on Arrival” claimed.


American Accent

One will not need to click such ads or enroll in such programs after arrival



“We are offering this free to students, but this program is also available for software engineers going onsite or anyone else going abroad for more than a couple of weeks. But they will have to pay for it,” Anthony told Faking News.


Given that stakeholder buy-in was vital to the success of this program, the airlines have roped in the state governments of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh to inform all students and IT professionals with H1/L1 visas going on-site about this program.


Funding for the program came in from unexpected quarters in the form of Korean carmaker Hyundai, which is also gifting their Accent line of vehicles to the parents of all students who participate in the program. Such parents will be chosen through a lucky draw.


“We are trying to associate ourselves with foreign accent. If we successfully position ourselves like that, our sales should shoot up,” a Hyundai marketing manager claimed.


The participating airlines claim that it’s possible to develop the required accent while in the flight. Students who have enrolled are seeing the effects of this almost immediately.


This reporter heard one senior who had come to pick a junior from the same university comment, “I spoke to you before you left; you sounded very Indian – then how did you get this accent all of a sudden in the flight?”


The junior smiled and showed to him the brochure of the program. The senior who is now one semester old in the States now repents having left his motherland just 4 months earlier. He looked dejected as he said, “Had I come for my MS at this time – I too would have been more American than I currently am!”


He was further dejected when as his junior asked him if he was supporting the SeaHawks or the Broncos for this Super Bowl.


“They are teaching more than just accent!” the senior confirmed to this Faking News reporter.


Sources tell that talks are going on with other major carriers like Emirates and Abu Dhabi airlines to offer more such programs such as “Affluence on Arrival” or “Arab on Arrival”.


Air India has reluctantly refused to participate in this program owing to pressure from the moral police who claimed that this was a western ploy to pollute the beautiful minds (and accents) of us Indians.



After Azam Khan’s buffaloes, brains of some ministers go missing in UP

Lucknow. Barely a few hours after Azam Khan’s buffaloes were recovered, the Uttar Pradesh police have been asked to go on another hunt to find brains of a few ministers that were reported to be missing.


A team of police officers handpicked by the Chief Minister have fanned out to different parts of the state to look out for the bhains brains.


It is not exactly clear for how long these brains were missing and if several important decisions that have been recently taken, were taken while the brains of the ministers were missing.


Akal badi ya bhains? This proverbial question might be finally answered if the UP police also finds the missing brains.

“Akal badi ya bhains?” This proverbial question might be finally answered if the UP police also finds the missing brains.



It is also not clear how the ministers realized that their brains were missing, and why they felt the need to get those back.


Faking News tried to get a list of the ministers whose brains have been missing but it is being kept a closely guarded secret. It could not be confirmed either if it included Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. No official was willing to comment on the developments either.


Police across the state has been put on a high alert so that the brains are not smuggled out of the state and a close watch is being kept on the borders across the state.


Top police officers of the state are personally monitoring the investigations into the missing brains. However, since most of the investigating officers had not seen what a brain looks like, they are not sure what to look at and where could they mind the missing brain.


“One of them went around asking people in the constituencies of the ministers if their brains could be found there,” one of the key members of investigating team told Faking News, not willing to be identified.


What is worrying the state government is that the missing brain virus seems to be spreading and the probe may have to be expanded.


Some MLAs have also claimed that they could not locate their brains. These MLAs were part of the group which went on a study tour around the globe recently. The state government is considering whether the police team should travel to each of those countries which the group of MLAs visited so that their brain too can be located.


Meanwhile after the reports of the missing brain, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has been deluged by calls. A call from the Prime Minister’s Office indicated that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had also asked a crack investigation team to locate his brain, which had not been used for the last 10 years. The two teams will soon compare notes to see if they can join hands in the probe.


“We are very disappointed that the investigating team has still not been able to locate the PM’s brain after its detailed investigation,” the official added, much to the disappointment of the Chief Minister.


A representative of US MNC also called the CM’s office claiming that they could develop a genetically modified brain. Its proposal is also expected in the next few days.


Meanwhile, the investigating officers have been scouring different parts of the state and only one officer could locate the brain in a remote field near Rampur, the constituency to which Azam Khan belongs. The state Director General of Police rushed to the spot. And this is what was found there.


Cow dung

Police is trying to ascertain if it’s a brain



Despite the disturbing developments, there is no official confirmation whether what has been found is the brain or not, in part or whole.



Sunday, February 2, 2014

Bappi Lahiri denies he joined BJP, claims it was Nitin Gadkari with makeover

Music director Bappi Lahiri has denied taking membership of BJP. He has claimed that the person who looked like Bappi Lahiri in the press conference, where he sang a song for BJP President Rajnath Singh and joined the party, was actually Nitin Gadkari.


Nitin Gadkari

Nitin Gadkari getting ready for the makeover



Nitin Gadkari

First step was to get rid of the mustache



Nitin Gadkari

Next came the wig to get that funky hairstyle like Bappi Da



Nitin Gadkari

Bappi Da is also known to wear funky eyeglasses



Nitin Gadkari

finally… the trademark gold chain; and the “fake” Bappi Da is here!




Friday, January 31, 2014

Management Trainee promoted to CEO after speaking nonsense for an hour

Mumbai. In an extraordinary feat of mental acuity, a Management Trainee in a consulting firm was promoted directly to CEO after he managed to speak nonsense extempore for an hour.


One of the many requirments to become a CEO

One of the many requirments to become a CEO



As per sources with the firm, the lucky new joinee had been, in fact, simply asked to introduce himself to other Management Trainees. However, the man launched into an awe inspiring speech, the specifics of which none of the people around him could remember later.


“It was like watching a Salman Khan movie or meeting with an accident that causes severe head trauma,” a fellow Management Trainee said.


“Tadapit Kumar,” he continued referring to the Management Trainee in question, “spoke for an hour- but his speech was so generic and full of gas that I was almost reminded of Rahul Gandhi’s interview to Arnab Goswami. Needless to say, much like Rahul Gandhi, the firm quickly promoted him to CEO, so that he might lead the company.”


“We are a consulting firm,” a senior HR executive familiar with the development told Faking News, “Our money-making capacities depend on our employees going up to clients and consistently backing ideas or models or other things underpaid interns have found for them on Google with long winding, snore inducing, and rather confusing speeches.”


“Our erstwhile CEO was very specific at times and would also give out facts and figures when asked specific questions. With Tadapit, who can let loose several bursts of verbal diarrhea in rapid succession, we have finally found someone who can back our half baked presentations with generic nonsense,” he added further.