"Because he wrote bad English" joke
LOOKING through the first Press Commission Report of 1954 presided over by Rajyadhaksha, I came upon a nugget. The commission was examining newspaper owners and questioning them about freedom given to editors. At the time Bennet Coleman (The Times of India group of publications) was owned by Seth Rama Krishna Dalmia whose grandson A. K. Jain presides over the newspaper empire today. Seth Dalmia maintained that he never interfered with his editors and as an example cited the campaign against prohibition carried out by the hard drinking editor of The Times of India, Frank Moraes. The commission was not impressed: "Why did you sack Feroze Chand?" a member asked Dalmia.
"Because he wrote bad English."
"Why did you sack Ranajung Bahadur Singh?" asked another.
"For the same reason, his English was not good."
"Do you know the English language well? Do you regard yourself as an expert on the language?" asked the chairman.
"No," conceded Sethji naively.
Not enough votes...