by Tony Sebastian who is saddened by the large number of humourless halfwits he has to put up with everyday.

In a most peculiar turn of events Pagal Patrakar, one of India's leading satirists, has been asked to apologise by his fans for making fun of himself in a post on his website Faking News. Mr. Patrakar had earlier written a piece in which he described Faking News as "a site which is not an original idea by itself, so many people have faked news before me. The posts on Faking News are rarely funny beyond the title itself because it seldom uses wordplay or other such humour devices. It has become so popular only because the updates are regular".

Fans of Faking News have reacted strongly to the post claiming that such comments were "unwarranted" and said that they take offence to the statements made by Mr. Patrakar. "Faking News is a really humorous website which pokes fun at so many things. How can Mr. Patrakar trivialise it by making such ludicrous statements?" said Abhishek Verma a long time Faking News fan who shares each Faking News story on his Facebook account. "By making fun of himself, Mr. Patrakar has insulted the intelligence of his readers and we, his fans, take offence and request him to apologise for the hurtful statements" said Ankit Garg a well known offence-taker who then proceeded to update his twitter status with "How can you guys make fun of something so serious? It's not cool" replying to a person who had said "For Kasab, the court ruling is really a grave situation"

Mr. Patrakar in an exclusive interview with er.. Faking Faking News News said "I had had enough of people taking offence with each and every post of mine be it about religious figures, film stars, politicians or even Lalit Modi. I just wanted to write a post which wouldn't offend anyone, so I chose to take a dig at myself." Irony fans the world over were seen smiling from ear to ear at this revelation from Mr. Patrakar. When asked about how he was going to react to this development Mr. Patrakar said "Oh that's easy, I'm going to take offence to the statements made by them. I have realised that in this day and age, taking offence is the best form of defence." He said signing off with a wink.

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