Claims to fame

Claims to fame
Await
My name
So do I
The lie.

Holi day is done

Holi day is done
With colours, and manners none.

Hail Mother India

Hail Mother India
For being made to bless
Worship
By the disbelievers.

Certificates of nationalism

Certificates of nationalism
Come one, come all
Free, free, free
In the saffron mall.

The JNU sordid saga

The JNU sordid saga
Makes some go ga ga
Over fixing the right
Of citizens to fight.

Rule-books and templates

I am tired of people
Who show me the book
Thoughtlessly overwrought
Like an 'on a roll' cook
And even if they did
I won't shame them on face
At the straitjacket they dish up
If they show some grace
Rule-books and templates
Are only a guide
For us to carry
Together on a ride
Whose path is known
But re-discovered in kind
The traveller ahead
Guide discreetly behind.

Admission Test

What we examine
In an Admission test
Is our ability
To debar and detest.

Design Teachers

Design Teachers
Funny species that proclaim
Think out of the box
While hiding inside the same.

Last summer was warm

Last summer was warm
Perhaps hot as well
This year will it be the same
For me to dwell
On the staircase down
As I frown
At the years going by
No longer shy
Of age
And the cage
Uphill.

Delayed live

The memory of a memory
Came back to haunt me
Delayed live.

This man woman thing

This man woman thing
Is confusing to say the least
Unequal that we are
Equally facing the beast.

The best part of teaching

The best part of teaching
Is that you forget
You have done it already
The worst part of teaching
Is that you remember
They will forget.

Men, You know how they are

Men in a NDTV debate
On women in religious spaces
Are acting like men.
You know how they are
Secure in their fear and far
Away from the facts
Of how their gender acts.

Like water held in a sieve

Strange are the ways
Of the world that we live
The art of it known to one
Like water held in a sieve.

Let us be with love

Let us be with love
In these times of hate
Let us be with peace
In these times that await
The annihilation of the 'other'
Let us be with love, rather.

Will not pay a penny

Will not pay a penny
Nor, for that matter, a pound
Let Yamuna rot and stink further
Let Mallya Man be found.

Lets throw some mud at him

Lets throw some mud at him
Lets dig up dirt and dream
Of a 'national' paradise
And a saffron sun whose rise
Will put Hindus to shame
But we will still acclaim
Our right to speak for you
Go do whatever you can do.

This boy is not a child

This boy is not a child
This boy in real is quite wild
This boy is not this and that
Nor are we, lest we forget.

Kanoon Ke Lambe Haath

The long arms of the law

The long arms of the law
Have a teeny-weeny flaw
They would rather be inside
The pants of gents who ride
Them to move abroad
While we deal with the fraud.

The Living Dead

The minister says
The river will be ok
As it is an art
Of the living dead.

Art of Living and The Art of Dying

The Art of Living
And the Art of Dying
No body knows it better
Than the Yamuna
Of late.

Of Justice, Hope and a Child

They have got oh so busy
In proving him a child
Of a discredited ism
And worse things not so mild
Please for once consider
Your lack of any scope
For this world to have justice
And this child to have hope.

Why make a film

Why make a film
And for whom
Why breathe in a mountain
Inside a small room
Some questions have no answer
Some answers no solution
Except that it might be better
To frame one, and not its resolution.

Happy Women's Day

Happy women's day
See, we do remember you
Once, every 365 days
The rest we do, what we do.

P.K. Tunn

Where else
But in Gujarat
Can Shri P.K. Tunn
Do, you know what ?

Condoms, Cows and Treason

Tell them
Those nationals
To go look elsewhere
For condoms, cows and treason
As there is reason
On a highway perhaps
While zooming past
An almost dead
Victim of their speed
Indeed.

Reinvent the wheel

Reinvent the wheel
Turn it into a square
Research, user test, analyse
And bring back the former
With a new feel.

Antibiotics on the rocks

Justice has since spoken
And so have the docs
Should it be now surgery
Or antibiotics on the rocks.

Doctored Videos

Where videos are doctored
And the law falls sick
Where truth & trust are fractured
In awe of the stick.