{"id":3497,"date":"2017-10-01T06:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T01:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2017-10-01T06:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T01:03:35","slug":"the-fall-guy-and-the-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-fall-guy-and-the-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall Guy (and the Stampede)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-51.png\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"The Fall Guy (and the Stampede)\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 51\">the 51st 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\/NasData\/\/PUBLICATIONS\/THETIMESOFINDIA\/AHMEDABAD\/2017\/10\/01\/PagePrint\/01_10_2017_017_282e2ae0989a0a9e7b313ea0074831eb.pdf\">edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>FALL GUY<\/p>\n<p>Yashwant-bhai told me, quite sedately,<br \/>\n&#8220;Amit, have you seen the news lately?<br \/>\nOur nation has been shamed.<br \/>\nModiji can&#8217;t be blamed,<br \/>\nSo I will blame it all on Jaitley.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ELPHINSTONE<\/p>\n<p>There is more to Mumbai than the rain.<br \/>\nHuman life keeps going down the drain.<br \/>\nJust another stampede<br \/>\nThat will never impede<br \/>\nOur rush towards a grand bullet train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-51.png\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 51\">the 51st 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\/NasData\/\/PUBLICATIONS\/THETIMESOFINDIA\/AHMEDABAD\/2017\/10\/01\/PagePrint\/01_10_2017_017_282e2ae0989a0a9e7b313ea0074831eb.pdf\">edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>FALL GUY<\/p>\n<p>Yashwant-bhai told me, quite sedately,<br \/>\n&#8220;Amit, have you seen the news lately?<br \/>\nOur nation has been shamed.<br \/>\nModiji can&#8217;t be blamed,<br \/>\nSo I will blame it all on Jaitley.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ELPHINSTONE<\/p>\n<p>There is more to Mumbai than the rain.<br \/>\nHuman life keeps going down the drain.<br \/>\nJust another stampede<br \/>\nThat will never impede<br \/>\nOur rush towards a grand bullet train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,4,7,8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Fall Guy (and the Stampede) - 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\/the-fall-guy-and-the-stampede\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Fall Guy (and the Stampede) - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the 51st installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page. 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