Sethi Jokes

TALL, young and beautiful Moni, a feature writer in the Friday Times of Lahore, a paper edited by her sister, Jugnu Sethi (wife of publisher Najam Sethi), was in Delhi for a few days. While discussing problems facing the two countries, she agreed that in neither was family planning being taken as seriously as it deserved.

She was given many instances of the bungling done in India. She
was told of the fate of Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur's flirtation with the rhythm method.

The latter had introduced rosaries with beads of three colours indicating safe, doubtful and unsafe periods for sexual intercourse. She did not realise that most humans mated at night when colours were not visible. So down the drain went a few crore rupees.

Moni capped it with an anecdote from Pakistan. Volunteers were recruited from colleges and sent out to villages to explain the importance of limiting numbers of children. They were given condoms to be distributed free to those who more...