Saint and a Communist
the bigger pictureWhen I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.When I ask why the poor have no food,they call me a communist.Dom Helder Camara
October 2006
Bright Future In Sales
Sleeping on a planter at the Port AuthorityWaiting for my bus to comeSeven scotch-and-sodas at the office partyNow I don't remember where I'm fromI think I had a black walletIn [...]
Will Kannur explode again ?
I'm not a soothsayer nor am I sitting on top of Kerala's state intelligence to say this. Its just a few news reports across the last few weeks and some [...]
Poor man’s Banker
Muhammad Yunus Nobel Peace Prize 2006The connection between poverty and peace.The connection between womens empowerment and peace. The connection between mutual trust, accountability, participation, creativity - the four pillars of [...]
Poor man’s Banker
Muhammad Yunus Nobel Peace Prize 2006The connection between poverty and peace.The connection between womens empowerment and peace. The connection between mutual trust, accountability, participation, creativity - the four pillars of [...]
And All that jazz
Folks, what can I tell youabout my next guest?This cat allowed himselfto be adored, but not loved.And his success in show businesswas matched by failure in his personal-relationship bag.Now that's [...]
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know [...]
The Inheritance of loss
"In India you get up in the morning and there are ten people there to greet you and to discuss how you slept. Or you can call up someone and [...]
Ghost
In the cold ramparts of the red brick apartment complex where the walls smell like yesterday's rain , stands the ghost. She lurks there suspended like a mystic cloud of [...]
Fleas interest me so much
Fleas interest me so muchthat I let them bite me for hours.They are perfect, ancient, Sanskrit,machines that admit of no appeal.They do not bite to eat,they bite only to jump;they [...]
Bowling for Columbine
Naomi Rose Ebersol was 'a seven year old angel', she went to school this monday morning and was taken hostage by Charles Carl Roberts,a 32 year old milk tank driver [...]
A Suicidal Note
To BoddahSpeaking from the tongue of an experienced simpletonwho obviously would rather be an emasculated, infantile complain-ee.This note should be pretty easy to understand.All the warnings from the punk rock [...]