My side… Your side
We’re surrounded by questions… and some of us see invading Huns in them or stalkers or crouched predators. Just look at RaGa and you’ll know what questions can do to your psyche. Consider the sort of questions Ambani would never want to hear. Then there are questions that silence will ask a man who reaches...
Names never die
‘Prem,’ he said, by way of introducing himself. I smiled. It isn’t every day that you bump into a 20-something who has a name that makes you smile first and then look at the person. This Prem, by the way, is an ace mountaineer, has climbed the Mount Everest and a number of other peaks...
My heart is all my own
Specky asked me, ‘How far would you go to get closer to someone you love?’ I looked at her with smiling eyes and replied, ‘As close as my truth would allow me to.’ I explained to her later that I wouldn’t ever promise to get stars or the moon for her and anyway, even without...
On winning and whining
Of late I’ve observed a strange cycle of truth… the whiners have started winning. Look at our politicians and you’ll know what I mean. Look at the bureaucrats and their transfer requests and you’ll know what I mean. Look at the way the auto-wala whines away to make him win a few extra rupees in...
Passion, Pain, and Possibility
The year was 1994. Specky, my wife, came in and said, ‘I’ve won the scholarship.’ That’s it. Nothing more. But I didn’t need any more information. I knew exactly what she meant. She had just been awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship to go and get her DPhil from the UK. So this is how I got...
Knowledge Is Great
This set of couplets and stanzas is a part of my twitter poetry for #KnowledgeIsGreat Every couplet/stanza fits in a 140 character tweet. [1] Answers are everywhere here I see them when I’m ready, dear! [2] I know that I know is what I know But I know more if I don’t show! [3]...
We never win if we win alone
Singing to a tune that everyone loves Or strumming out a musical score for words all know Is what mortals in this world do or show I do all this but I wish to be immortal. Mercenaries get paid for every drop of blood So does an assassin. So do doctors, lawyers, & leaders For...
From Medusa to Medulla
Time flew. The snakes on Medusa’s hair got tired of unable to moult and shrivelled in their multiple and unused moults and died. Medusa herself was not in great health and tottered to the Gorgon sisters and whispered, ‘I’ll soon be gone. Be gone forever my friends. You know my story and you also know...
Bounce, buzz, and giggle
A blackberry can have a huge variety of reactions… on the emotive as well as the physical level. And I’m not talking about the blackberry that you hold in your hands to text or talk… I’m talking about the Blackberry Crush in the wide range of breezer flavours from Bacardi. For the absolutely uninitiated, a...
There’s more to stubble than you really know
‘Haven’t you forgotten to add an article before stubble in the title?’ asked Specky when she read what I was writing. I paused and replied, ‘No. And that is because I’m not writing about A STUBBLE. I’m writing about stubble, the word.’ ‘So that means a stubble isn’t always the sort of despicable out-growth...
My Yoga Rhymes
Night is gone but dreams are on And sleep for me goes on and on Until my wife says: ‘Get up, you bum Brush your teeth to be my chum!’ ‘There’s a better way,’ says my tab. And it is my trusty smiling lab! ‘Set an alarm of a song you like And you’ll wake...
Passion isn’t a fashion but a way of life!
I wouldn’t say: ‘What is life without a passion?’ I would, on the other hand, insist on asking: ‘Is there a life without a passion?’ You then just might curl your lips to reveal a villainous smile and drawl, ‘Is passion always Jamaican?’ Jamaican Passion. Ah! This is a coming together of words that brings...
