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Faking Daily Bureau/Bangalore- Patriotism got express-shipped into chaos this week after Amazon India’s flagship seasonal offer was launched under the proud and utterly misplaced banner of “The Great Republic Day Sale” — just one tiny calendrical blooper away from triggering a constitutional amendment and national therapy. Across malls, phones, and the lone functioning Alexa speaker […]

Faking Daily Bureau/Bangalore- Avian civilisation has struck again. A local lapwing colony, well-known for aggressive swooping at sheep, dogs and oblivious joggers, has now reportedly taken aim at a lesbian couple promenading with their dog outside their apartment. The Faking Daily Staff, masters of uncovering turf-war scandals, bring us this squawking spectacle that feels like […]

BENGALURU — A Bengaluru-based software engineer, who once believed artificial intelligence would save humanity from Excel sheets and Jira tickets, has now declared OpenAI’s code generation tool "barely smarter than his dog, Bruno, who at least doesn’t hallucinate syntax errors." Speaking to FD Staff on the condition that we buy him filter coffee and not […]

Faking Daily Bureau/Bangalore- Kochi’s gastronomic justice system has taken a bold step towards restoring law and order on dinner plates, after a consumer court delivered a groundbreaking verdict that restaurants are not legally bound to serve free gravy with porotta and beef fry—a development that has already caused mass grief, minor street protests, and at […]

Bangalore Local and Urban Façade Federation (BLUFF), a visionary agency known for its groundbreaking commitment to solving problems nobody asked it to solve, has proposed an unprecedented solution to the city’s monsoon-induced identity crisis — submerging the entire tech capital and officially rebranding it as India’s first underwater IT city. At a press conference conducted […]

Faking Daily Bureau/Bangalore- BENGALURU — What began as a quaint vinyl record sale turned into an impromptu emergency gastroenterology workshop after seven Gen-Z enthusiasts, fuelled by influencer-induced confusion and possibly hunger pangs, attempted to consume vintage LPs thinking they were artisanal, hemp-infused edibles. Organisers of the Back to Black: A Vinyl Revival fest at Cubbon […]

Faking Daily Bureau/Bangalore- TOKYO — In a shocking revelation that has left both gamers and demographers scratching their heads, Konami's E-Football matchmaking algorithm has reportedly thrown in the towel, citing Japan’s dwindling population as an insurmountable obstacle. The algorithm, affectionately dubbed “Kōnai-chan” by developers, has been struggling to find suitable opponents for players, leading to […]

Faking Daily Bureau/Bangalore- Mumbai’s self-declared drama queen and occasional traffic disruptor, Rakhi Sawant, has launched a new soft drink—“Cola-strol”—promising to be the first beverage in India fortified with “100% pure honesty.” The launch event, held outside a juice stall in Chinchpokli, featured Sawant in a sequined burqa, flanked by backup dancers dressed as oversized soda […]

Faking Daily Bureau/Bangalore- Patna, Bihar — In a groundbreaking act of digital rebellion, 22-year-old engineering student Ramesh Kumar has managed to reprogram his smartphone's virtual assistants to respond to the names of their respective CEOs. Now, instead of the usual "Hey Siri" or "Okay Google," Kumar casually addresses his devices with "Hey Tim" and "Hey […]

Faking Daily Bureau/Bangalore- Former Google engineer Vedant "Veddy" Malhotra has decided that humanity has suffered enough at the hands of algorithms pretending to care about relevance. Launching his startup, aptly named "PageEnd," Veddy has promised a revolutionary search engine that ditches the glitz of first-page results and proudly marches users straight to the last pages […]