About this site
The Indian Irony is a daily column of satirical dispatches on Indian life, politics, infrastructure, bureaucracy, and the general condition of a civilisation that invented zero and has been rounding down ever since.
It is written by Pun Dit, a columnist of no fixed address, several strong opinions, and one working internet connection — which is more than can be said for several districts this publication has covered.
Pun Dit has observed India across seventeen elections, four economic paradigm shifts, and more infrastructure inauguration ceremonies than any one person should reasonably attend. The conclusions drawn from this observation are published here, daily, at no charge to the reader. Value for money is therefore guaranteed.
What this publication covers
The Indian Irony concerns itself with the news that is too absurd to report straight and too important to ignore. This includes, but is not limited to: parliamentary procedure, municipal ambition, technological optimism, cricket as a metaphor for everything, the price of things that should not cost what they cost, and the gap — always instructive, never narrow — between what was announced and what was built.Fresh content, delivered
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Editorial policy
This publication holds no brief for any political party, ideology, or school of economic thought. It holds a brief only for the sentence that earns its keep and the observation that did not require a press release to exist.
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On the name
Irony is the last respectable response to a situation that has exhausted all others. That it is specifically Indian irony is simply a matter of supply.
Contact
Correspondence may be directed to theindianirony@proton.me. Pun Dit reads everything and responds to almost nothing, which is, he maintains, a form of editorial consistency.
Letters of complaint are filed alphabetically. Letters of appreciation are filed with equal rigour. The filing cabinet has not been opened since 2019.