Popular poet and satirist Surender Sharma says, “My father worried these jokes would scare women away, thinking I was already taken! While my material often features wives, it’s meant to be humorous, not critical.”
What started in the second year of college is still going strong for popular poet and satirist Surender Sharma whose starting punchline ‘chaar lainaa suna raha hoon’ was as popular as his dry-wit humour in the ’80s and ’90s. Best known for his comic sketches about wives, the hasya kavi — even after all these years — is still working towards creating something the future generations will be proud of. “I’ve never been one to dwell on the past – the future is what excites me,” he tells indianexpress.com in an exclusive interaction.

Surender Sharma: ‘I started writing satirical jokes about wives 7 years before I got married’

“Before Osho left his body, he himself gave the words to be inscribed on his samadhi: ‘Osho – Never Born Never Died’,” says Osho disciple Swami Chaitanya Keerti
Swami Chaitanya Keerti, a die-hard disciple of Osho, was associated with the Osho International Meditation Resort, better known as Osho Commune or Osho Ashram, from 1974 to 2001. The founding editor of Osho Times International and former spokesperson of the commune, Keerti is now part of the ‘rebel’ sanyasin faction. In an interview with Manoj More, Keerti throws light on the days preceding the death of the mystic on January 19, 1990.

The last days of Osho

THE Osho “rebel” group has alleged that over 200 pages related to their spiritual guru on Facebook have been removed on instructions of the management of Pune-based Osho International Foundation (which works under Switzerland’s Osho International Foundation) so that information about such celebrations does not reach all Osho’s disciples as it did before. The Osho International Meditation Resort refused to comment on the allegations.