A boy went home with a pain in his stomach. Mother: Sit down and drink your tea. Your stomach’s hurting because it is empty. It will be all right when you have got something in it.

Shortly afterwards, his dad came in from office complaining of a headache.

Boy: That’s because it’s empty. You’d be all right if you had something in it.

Sakshi Beotra, Class V, Delhi Public School, Nazira, Assam

A new student has come to class. Teacher: What is your name?

Student: Mera naam hai Suraj Prakash.

Teacher: When I ask your name in English, you are supposed to reply in English and not in Hindi.

Student: All right. My name is ‘Sunlight’.

Trishna Pal, Class VI, Pranavananda Vidyamandir,

Durgapur

Once a soldier wearing a parachute was talking to his commander. Commander: How many times have you jumped from a helicopter?

Soldier: Once.

Commander: But your record shows you have jumped 10 times.

Soldier: I have jumped once on my own, the rest of the times I was pushed out.

Subham Pareek, Class VI, St Thomas High School, Assam

Teacher: Make a sentence that starts with ‘I’. Pappu: I is…

Teacher: No Pappu, there is no ‘is’ after ‘I’. It is always followed by ‘am’.

Pappu: Okay, I am the ninth alphabet!

Arindam Mukherjee, Class VII, Mollarpur Dharani Deven Shiksha Niketan, Birbhum

Tarun: Why is a river considered to be rich?

Ritu: It is considered to be rich because it has two banks!

Sagnik Garai, Class VI, St Joseph’s

Convent High School, Chittaranjan

Question: What did the mother kangaroo tell the baby kangaroo? Answer: Hop’less.

Malika Kar, Class VII, B.D. Memorial

Institute, Calcutta

Teacher: What happened after Aurangzeb’s death? Rohan: He was given a grand burial, sir. Teacher: It seems you don’t need a history book...

Rohan: Right, sir. I have a strong common sense.

Swagata Chakraborty, Class VI, A. G. Church School,

Asansol

Question: What did one corner say to another? Answer: It’s a pity that we can never meet.

Abhranila Das, Class V, Bhavan’s Gangabux Kanoria Vidyamandir, Calcutta

Mr Chatterjee: If the red house is on the right side of the road and the blue house is on the left, then where is the white house?

Rahul: It is located in Washington D.C.

Antarik Chatterjee, Class VIII, Augustine’s Public School, Ramrajatala