Kolkata

01

Being
Where one had once been
Is a joyful exercise
Exercised in sorrow.

(Kolkata / 29-01-2015)

02

Should one be happy
That things have changed
For the better
Or should one be sad
That things have changed ?

(Kolkata / 30-01-2015)

03

Kolkata
Can I say I love you
With bit of a broken heart
And eyes that selfishly seek
The bare bones of survival
In place of towering, well-fed concrete
Cold, sold and erased.

(Kolkata / 30-01-2015)

04

When decades collide
On a street not that wide
Of memories that ride
The flyovers that hide
The decades that collide.

(Kolkata / 30-01-2015)

05

Much has changed
But not of this
The colonial queen
Still habits
The open green
And marble of yore
Kolkata moves
And stays like before.

(Ahmedabad / 01-02-2015)