Category: OTHER COMPOSITIONS

• April 11, 2011

  Divine Routes to Sexual Harrassmet

  I felt hopelessly lonely as soon as I opened my eyes this morning and noticed the first rays of sunshine illuminating me at my bovine best. They had lit me up I felt with the sole purpose of helping the world ignore me with unadulterated indifference. I moaned as usual and was close to humming…
• March 28, 2011

  Rainy Day

  The rains’ turn it was — to usher in the morn, As the sky stood lost — in the embrace of the dark,
• March 19, 2011

  Figures in the Limelight

  It was a pleasant surprise to watch the celebrated thespian, Mithun Chakraborty, anchor a TV show the other evening in which he restricted his guests from the civil society to answer questions that were sharply posed, instead of out-howling each other. Amongst the many issues he brought up, one in particular stood out. He took…
• January 31, 2011

  Kurani (Foundling)

  Lips pouted, head tilted in rage, Nostrils inflated, eyes ablaze,
• January 28, 2011

  The Key

  Your missing, much beloved key E’en today, with me alone doth lie.
• January 23, 2011

  A Flat atop the New Market

  Kuntal had an appointment with an insurance agent in Connaught Place in Delhi, but just as he was about to walk into the well-appointed office, he noticed Mr. Sharma’s name on a plain wooden door adjacent to the glass paneled office entrance. And, to leave nothing to doubt, the word ‘Residence’ stood out in bold…
• January 17, 2011

  The Man who could not be a General

  Masquerading as an officer above one’s rank, it seems, is one of the gravest offences one can commit in military service. A court martial is the inevitable consequence of being caught in the act and the most lenient penalty one can hope for is a retrenchment order accompanied by a certificate of condemnation. The strict…
• December 31, 2010

  The Man Simply Never Found Out

  Keeping constant vigil over his left breast-pocket Alas! The man lost track of this world as well as the next.
• November 28, 2010

  Debu-da: Large Man in a Larger World

  Come to think of it, you can’t really blame God for failing to make all men equal, or all women for that matter. Not to speak of the rest of the living world, starting from cats, dogs and grasshoppers, all the way back to dinosaurs. Inequality notwithstanding, God has ensured that what one loses on…
• November 26, 2010

  Misson Impossible

  Barack Obama’s desperate bid to rescue the recession-plagued American economy stands in sharp contrast to events that occurred in the early 1970s when Richard Nixon was in charge of the country. His bête noire at the time was the then president of France, Charles De Gaulle, who demanded that the United States of America pay…