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e-satire, Chennai-style

Santhosh Malliah

Are you an avid Internet surfer? Do you live for a-quip-a-day? Does your day begin and end with a laugh? Yes? Then, www.bosey.com is the e-place to be. The site is, by its own admission, India's first three-weekly humour site. It is also Chennai's homegrown e-satire.

With a collection of localised humour and raucous jokes, the site picks on a range of personalities, from Veerappan to Yanni, for its not-so-subtle digs. Two examples. The news item on Veerappan reports on his inability to open a Hotmail account at a cybercafe in Satyamangalam. Yanni, on the other hand, is seen announcing his next concert at the city's premier shopping centre -- Alsa Mall.

Backing the `veracity' of these stories are carefully doctored pictures, which nearly tell the truth.

Though bosey.com is inspired by the traditions of satire spawned by magazines such as Mad and The Onion, its humour is indigenously original. Imaginative cartoons adorn the pages, while the personalities featured in the columns are me rcilessly lampooned. (The name `bosey', incidentally, is derived from the Australian term for a cricket googly -- and is meant to imply a site with a twist.)

The site is updated every 21 days with a now distinctive brand of satire that cannot help but make Chennai smile at itself. Since it started in July this year, Bosey.com has built up a dedicated list of 500 subscribers. You can bet your deflating ru pee that this site has more than one rib-tickling insight to offer the intrepid surfer. Bosey.com does goes where no humour site has gone before.