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Online humorists exasperated over rupee’s reluctance to settle at 69 to the dollar

Social media wits have expressed extreme frustration at the Rupee’s inability to settle at the 69 mark. A few days back, the Rupee had  briefly touched 69  before a highly embarrassed RBI swung into action by selling a few million Dollars from its reserves to push it back. End of trading saw the Rupee settle at 63.88 to a Dollar. In a petition to the RBI, a group of five hundred comedians on social media has requested the central bank not to curb the Rupee’s march upwards and to let it find its equilibrium at 69. “This is our bread and butter,” said Twitter celebrity Ramesh Kumar. “We had our entire Rupee at 69 jokes ready at least a month ago, but what’s the use? We are surviving by cracking onion jokes for now, but they are now getting stale,” rued Kumar. “People threaten to douse us with unadulterated petrol if we dare crack yet another lame petrol price joke,” added Manoranjan Singh, another social media enthusiast. “Just when you think it looks promising, it goes ba...