Our Lord of the Underworld
My Very Enormous Monster Just Sucked Up Nine Planets - was an easy,stupid line to remember those nine planets out there . But we never needed this line ,it came [...]
August 2006
A Secular Rethink
A picture History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again - Maya Angelou A video A few years back we [...]
Bang bang, my baby shot me down
I was five and he was sixWe rode on horses made of sticksHe wore black and I wore whiteHe would always win the fightBang bang, he shot me downBang bang, [...]
One and the only
After these months of blogging,when I look back,its feels so awful that I have not lend any space here to the person I adore , admire, hear and read about [...]
Phenomenal woman
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies.I say,It's in the [...]
Mother of all fears
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. Analyzing what my [...]
A Dog Has Died
My dog has died.I buried him in the gardennext to a rusted old machine.Some day I'll join him right there,but now he's gone with his shaggy coat,his bad manners and [...]
I wish I was a hunter
I wish I was a hunterin search of different foodI wish I was the animalwhich fits into that moodI wish I was a personwith unlimited breathI wish I was a [...]
Serendipity
Its almost three years since I left my den facing the coconut jungle.Understandably the lady of the house who is possibly jobless at times,would have ranged through my cupboards and [...]
Aye maalik tere bande hum
aye maalik tere ba.nde hamaise ho hamaare karamnekii par chale.naur badii se Tale.ntaaki ha.nsate huye nikale damjab zulmo.n kaa ho saamanaatab tuu hii hame.n thaamanaavo buraaI kare.nham bhalaaI bhare.nnahii.n badale [...]
She thinks I still care
She thinks I still careJust because I ask a friend about herJust because I spoke her name somewhereJust because I rang her number by mistake todayShe thinks I still careJust [...]
Gentleman Alone
The young maricones and the horny muchachas,The big fat widows delirious from insomnia,The young wives thirty hours' pregnant,And the hoarse tomcats that cross my garden at night,Like a collar of [...]