Published Sep 23, 2026 | 10:55 AM ⚊ Updated Sep 23, 2026 | 10:55 AM
InJest in a satirical column by South First. Names, places, situations are all fictitious. Caricature by Satish Acharya/South First.
The Tea Minister is angry at his colleagues-cum-subordinates-cum-cheerleaders for failing to stop the spilling of bad tea made from worse tea that he is serving.
With mockery about the tea filling the living rooms around the country and Instagram — like dirty air in Delhi winter — he has decided to reshuffle his kitchen cabinet and find those who can serve the tea and him better.
“Our failure to serve any and every thing he does or happens to him as a ‘masterstroke’ has cost us,” a masterstroke-less minister-to-be-replaced told Satire Satya.
Another one of those explained how media propping up teenage sensation Sooryavanshi’s every stroke as a masterstroke without giving credit to the Tea Minister has made matters worse.
“There was a time when even election losses were masterstrokes, and now every good shot belongs to the kid”, the Tea Minister told Satire Satya through a teleprompter.
From Hazare to Wangchuck, he did not appreciate his own masterstroke of a hunger strike being turned against him, and that too just after a 15-year gap.
Those on the chopping block raised their knives at the opposition for doing their jobs after a decade-long gap, which had led the ruling class to become complacent and fail to tolerate or counter it.
“While the UPI fee may or may not cost all users money, it certainly cost us our jobs,” one laughed, and another cried.
They revealed the Tea Minister’s surprise at the criticism, as even a million or so lamps on his birthday didn’t shine enough light on the problem for him, since he thought UPI was an acronym for ‘You Pay I’.
“We tried to sell it along with lathis on students, petrol-mixed ethanol, his cringe hugs and laughter as good for the country like demonetisation and GST, but the opposition mocking didn’t let the laughter die,” said another with laugh-filled tears.
Refusing to let the mocking stop him from selling stale tea, the Tea Minister swore on the teleprompter that he would not go without another masterstroke, real or otherwise, before Sooryavanshi’s next match.
“I’m going to call it a cabinet reshuffle where yes-men and yes-women are replaced by yes-yes and yes-men and yes-women,” he declared, reading from the teleprompter, which died soon after.
(Written by Prabhpreet, an Unsanskari Writer, with a lifelong experience of laughing at things that make him cry.)
InJest is a satirical column from South First. Names, places, and situations referred to in the satirical piece are fictitious and are not intended to hurt any sentiments. The column is meant to be taken with a pinch of salt and a whole lot of laughs.
