{"id":3490,"date":"2017-11-05T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T07:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2017-11-05T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T07:54:21","slug":"house-of-khichdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/house-of-khichdi\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Khichdi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-56.png\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"House of Khichdi\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 56\">the 56th installment<\/a> of <a href=\"\/category\/rhyme-and-reason\/\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason -- Amit Varma\">Rhyme and Reason<\/a>, my weekly set of limericks for the <\/i>Sunday Times of India<i> <a href=\"http:\/\/epaperbeta.timesofindia.com\/index.aspx?eid=31804&amp;dt=20171105#\">edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>KHICHDI<\/p>\n<p>A friend asked, &#8220;What makes India great?&#8221;<br \/>\nI said, &#8220;The variety on our plate.<br \/>\nWe embrace difference,<br \/>\nAnd don&#8217;t lose our essence.<br \/>\nI just love how we assimilate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HOUSE OF CARDS<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump said to me with great joy,<br \/>\n&#8220;Kevin Spacey has been a bad boy.<br \/>\nHe had to pay the price, <br \/>\nBut you must realise,<br \/>\nReal presidents don&#8217;t need to be coy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-56.png\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 56\">the 56th installment<\/a> of <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/categories\/category\/rhyme-and-reason\/\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason -- Amit Varma\">Rhyme and Reason<\/a>, my weekly set of limericks for the <\/i>Sunday Times of India<i> <a href=\"http:\/\/epaperbeta.timesofindia.com\/index.aspx?eid=31804&amp;dt=20171105#\">edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>KHICHDI<\/p>\n<p>A friend asked, &#8220;What makes India great?&#8221;<br \/>\nI said, &#8220;The variety on our plate.<br \/>\nWe embrace difference,<br \/>\nAnd don&#8217;t lose our essence.<br \/>\nI just love how we assimilate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HOUSE OF CARDS<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump said to me with great joy,<br \/>\n&#8220;Kevin Spacey has been a bad boy.<br \/>\nHe had to pay the price, <br \/>\nBut you must realise,<br \/>\nReal presidents don&#8217;t need to be coy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>House of Khichdi - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/house-of-khichdi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"House of Khichdi - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the 56th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page. 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