{"id":4372,"date":"2009-01-12T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2009-01-12T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T19:42:00","slug":"raju-vs-raju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/raju-vs-raju\/","title":{"rendered":"Raju vs Raju"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daily-humor.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/spin-twins.html\" title=\"Spin Twins\">Rohan D&#8217;Sa compares<\/a> Venkatapathy Raju and Ramalinga Raju&#8212;or the &#8216;Spin Twins&#8217;, as he calls them. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how so many rocking Indian blogs, like those by Rohan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rameshsrivats.net\/\" title=\"Let's Put Da -- Ramesh Srivats\">Ramesh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bosey.co.in\/index.htm\" title=\"Son of Bosey -- Anand Ramachandran\">Anand<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyyoufools.com\/\" title=\"Fly, You Fools! -- Saad Akhtar\">Saad<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/krishashok.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Doing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa -- Krish Ashok\">Krish<\/a> and, of course, the venerable <a href=\"http:\/\/greatbong.net\/\" title=\"Great Bong!\">Arnab<\/a>, are so strong on <i>humour<\/i>. And none of these dudes are frivolously funny&#8212;they provoke thought as much as they cause laughter. Given what Manjula Padmanabhan <a href=\"\/comedy-vs-mortality\/\" title=\"Comedy vs Mortality\">once said<\/a> about the need for humour, could this flourishing of comic bloggers indicate that we live in depressing times?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daily-humor.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/spin-twins.html\" title=\"Spin Twins\">Rohan D&#8217;Sa compares<\/a> Venkatapathy Raju and Ramalinga Raju&#8212;or the &#8216;Spin Twins&#8217;, as he calls them. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how so many rocking Indian blogs, like those by Rohan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rameshsrivats.net\/\" title=\"Let's Put Da -- Ramesh Srivats\">Ramesh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bosey.co.in\/index.htm\" title=\"Son of Bosey -- Anand Ramachandran\">Anand<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyyoufools.com\/\" title=\"Fly, You Fools! -- Saad Akhtar\">Saad<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/krishashok.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Doing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa -- Krish Ashok\">Krish<\/a> and, of course, the venerable <a href=\"http:\/\/greatbong.net\/\" title=\"Great Bong!\">Arnab<\/a>, are so strong on <i>humour<\/i>. And none of these dudes are frivolously funny&#8212;they provoke thought as much as they cause laughter. Given what Manjula Padmanabhan <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/comedy-vs-mortality\/\" title=\"Comedy vs Mortality\">once said<\/a> about the need for humour, could this flourishing of comic bloggers indicate that we live in depressing times?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Raju vs Raju - 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\/raju-vs-raju\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raju vs Raju - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rohan D&#8217;Sa compares Venkatapathy Raju and Ramalinga Raju&#8212;or the &#8216;Spin Twins&#8217;, as he calls them.  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