Life

Dying everyday
To make born
Its stories
That's life.

(Ahmedabad / 22-01-2015)

Obama

Where will Obama eat
And who
Where will his dogs
(I mean the canines)
Go and poo
Breaking now
On TV news
And you.

(Ahmedabad / 22-01-2015)

Big Boss

Why do I watch
Big Boss
C'est simple mon ami
Idiots ragging idiots
Is kind of
Familiar.

(Ahmedabad / 22-01-2015)

Vibrant

I steal a rupee
You call me a thief
I steal hundreds
You call me smart
I steal crores
I am vibrant.

(Ahmedabad / 21-01-2015)

Making cinema

Making cinema
Is like penance
Seems like a mistake
While you are at it
But hits you
Like an undeserved boon
When you are through.

(Ahmedabad / 20-01-2015)

Life

Life takes you
On a high
Releasing, without notice
To the to be sore
Bums.

(Ahmedabad / 19-01-2015)

Fake in India

Make in India
Students for your universities
Your oriental think-tanks
Then with their NRI or hyphenated nose
Fake in India.

(Ahmedabad / 18-01-2015)

Freedom

Freedom
Is an idea
Realised
In routine.

(Ahmedabad / 18-01-2015)

Ways of the world

Can I teach
Ways of the world
To young ones
Already cool
Or to adults
Much colder ?

(Ahmedabad / 17-01-2015)

Love is

Love is
Never being able to to say no
To the yes
Which should have been a double negative
To begin with.

(Ahmedabad / 17-01-2015)

Being Swachha

If you look at the world
Carefully
All that dirt
So what should one do
Be dirty
Or join swachha bharat
And be dirty ?

(Ahmedabad / 16-01-2015)

Freedom to ignore

Freedom
To ignore
Is as good as
The right to
Get hurt no more.

(Ahmedabad / 15-01-2015)

I knew this boy

I knew this boy
Posing with such a flair
Twinkle in the eyes, and a hint
Of upper lip hair.

(Ahmedabad / 15-01-2015)

The Vibrants

The vibrant people
Of the vibrant state
Nay, the vibrant county now
Fly their kites
(Pun intended)
Knocking off all opposition
Including birds, brains
And other truths bitter.

(Ahmedabad / 14-01-2015)

When I was young

When I was young
Yes I was young, once
I believed in age
Now since I have it
(Age, stupid)
I have doubts
About my youthful
Once.

(Ahmedabad / 13-01-2015)

The God Of Small Things

Hating humour
Or humouring hate
Caught in a bind.

--- --- ---

The problem with People of the Book is
They haven't updated the edition
And the older one is out of print
Leaving half-understood photocopies in its wake.
--- --- ---
The poor
And the marginalised
Have a greater right
To take offence
The new Charlie Hebdo discourse.
--- --- ---
Class
Caste
Creed
All breed
Hate
Is it too late
For love ?
(Ahmedabad / 10-01-2015)
--- --- ---
If God were a little more reasonable
And reason a little less profane
Most of us would lead a life
Generally happy, and mostly sane.
(Ahmedabad / 12-01-2015)
--- --- ---
My God
Your God
His God
Her God
Our God
Their God
PBUH (Peace be upon Him)
(Ahmedabad / 13-01-2015)
--- --- ---
If one is hurt
Or if one wants to avenge
All one needs to do
Is draw a likeness in revenge.

(Ahmedabad / 17-01-2015)

Love

We want to be loved
Without loving
Besides
Is love possible
Or peaceable ?

(Ahmedabad / 08-01-2015)

I love
And hate
In equal measure
Cheating
While measuring.

(Ahmedabad / 09-01-2015)

Patriarchy

01

Patriarchy
Rule of Men
Enforced by
Mothers and Daughters
Sisters and Sister-in-laws
Girlfriends and Wives
And their Men.

02

Be a man first !
Said the emancipated girl
Disdainfully
To her patriarchal
Diminutive opponent.

(Ahmedabad / 07-01-2015)

The Jungle

The Jungle
Stood by the roadside
Obliging
Taxiloads of selfies.

(Ahmedabad / 06-01-2015)

A hard lesson

That moment
When your student
Delivers you
A hard lesson.

(Ahmedabad / 05-01-2015)

Being oneself

What is worse
Being selfish
Being selfless
Or being oneself ?

(Ahmedabad / 05-01-2015)

Men

Men have it all
Fame, Infamy
And oblivion.

(Ahmedabad / 05-01-2015)

Lo Subah Ho Chali

Losing the Plot

You know what
I teach
The right path
To the right nirvanas
Having lost the plot
Long back.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 05-01-2015)

Ancient India had planes

Ancient India had planes
Maybe it did
Maybe they flew too
More important question is
Who did they fly
The stupid contestants in Big Boss
Or stupider Sallu bhai ?

(NID, Ahmedabad / 04-01-2015)

Borders

Truth
Is the first casualty
At the borders
Of sanity.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 04-01-2015)

Wisdom

But you state the obvious
Said the wise one
Wise enough not to see
The obvious.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 03-01-2015)

I believe in cute puppies

Do I believe
In cute puppies
Do I dislike
Upwardly yuppies
Do I keep left
On the road
And off it, happily
Release the load
Do I wonder
About rich and poor
Do I make you
Of me sure ?

(NID, Ahmedabad / 02-01-2015)

Happy New Year

01

Happy New Year
To the correct
And the delusional
Let both
Cohabit
In sin.

02

Lets be happy
As the season demands
This too shall pass.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 01-01-2015)

The lady in question

The question is not
About the lady
But is about
Throwing the bath
With the baby.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 31-12-2014)

The Right Path

Men, women
And the herd
Shoving you, oh so gently
Down the right path.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 31-12-2014)

Lost in translation

Victims
And perpetrators
Lost in translation.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 31-12-2014)

Reactions

Reactions reveal much
Like the provocation.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 31-12-2014)

Clean chit

A clean chit
Is all it takes
To wipe the stuff
Off we know where.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 30-12-2014)

The Doctrine of Deeds

This world has three kinds
Ones who do
And the ones who don't
And the ones who write bad verses
On the doctrine of deeds.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 30-12-2014)

PK

Pious fervour
In the fervently impious
Thank you, PK
For showing them
Them.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 30-12-2014)

Knowledge

The more you know
The less you know
About most of the
Least.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 29-12-2014)

Holiday selfies

Holiday selfies
Have the desired effect
On those left out
Bring it on...

(NID, Ahmedabad / 29-12-2014)

Good intentions

Good intentions
Are not enough
Neither intended
Nor upto any good.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 29-12-2014)

Com passion

Of what use is compassion
If not coming to use in passion ?

(NID, Ahmedabad / 29-12-2014)

Wisdom for the night

My quiet wisdom for the night
May sound foolish at sunrise
Dream up something so real that
Of dreaming does real comprise.

(NID, Ahmedabad / 27-12-2014)