Monty Python’s Flying Circus premiered John Cleese’s “The Ministry of Silly Walks” in 1970.
The sketch satirically skewered British bureaucracy’s upper echelons.
More than a decade earlier, India and Pakistan had already perfected the art of highly choreographed “silly walks”…but in real life, with neither satirical nor comedic intent.
Various “silly” walks are a key element in a bizarre military ritual, still conducted late each afternoon on the Indo-Pakistani border, less than one hour’s drive from both the Indian city of Amritsar and the megacity of Lahore.
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