Knowledge & Ignorance

Knowledge
And Ignorance
Are siblings
In love.

(NID Ahmedabad / 28-11-2014)

The Business of Education

To paying students
You cannot say
I teach
Therefore I am
They pay
Therefore they are.

(NID Ahmedabad / 27-11-2014)

Nothing to Post

No, I haven't had a baby
Nor did I visit those sexy rocks
Off the peculiar Vietnamese coast
My dog, cat or crocodile
Hasn't gone to sleep
In my office or in the arms of my host
Such is life
Sometimes I have nothing
Worthwhile to post.

(NID Ahmedabad / 25-11-2014)

Amnesia

01

Lets make things work
Lets forget what we did
Or, rather did not
After all, it was in national interest then
And it is in national interest now
Yes no ?

02

Constructive destruction then
Destructive construction now
India ! India !

03

On your knees
Get set
Bow
Commanded The Leader
And we did.

(NID Ahmedabad / 25-11-2014)

Of Spirits

Spirited we fall
Sober we are over.

(NID Ahmedabad / 25-11-2014)

What if

What if I were a bird
And believed in flight
What if I was human with
Humanity in my sight.

Is it enough to say I live
Is life enough to say I did
What if I was not what I am
What if I found out what I hid.

(NID Ahmedabad / 24-11-2014)

Ek Kahani To Baney ...

Walking on the clouds

You said come
And I started walking
On the clouds
With gravitational
Consequences.

(NID Ahmedabad / 20-11-2014)

Trial run

Trial run
Is this life
Will do better
Hereafter.

(NID Ahmedabad / 20-11-2014)

The Leader

Last night
I was scared
For all of us
As the rest
Were busy
Flirting
The Leader.

(NID Ahmedabad / 20-11-2014)

Arrivals & Departures

Arrivals
And departures
Are irrelevant
To the journey
Being of solitary
Disposition.

(NID Ahmedabad / 20-11-2014)

God

In the beginning
There was God
Only in the beginning...

(NID Ahmedabad / 19-11-2014)

Tonight I can

Tonight I can hear the saddest lines
Or for that matter, the happiest
Tomorrow will also do
As did yesterday.

(with apologies to Neruda)

(NID Ahmedabad / 19-11-2014)

The Devil and the Deep Sea

I am
A work in progress
Of the devil
And the deep sea
Working in tandem.

(NID Ahmedabad / 14-11-2014)

Young Designers

They call themselves
Young designers
Having used every old trick in the trade
To arrive at this
Jaded, adulterated youth.

(NID Ahmedabad / 14-11-2014)

I Am

I am
Like myself
Bold, Balanced, Beautiful
Cantankerous, Contrite
Confused.

(NID Ahmedabad / 13-11-2014)