Today is the 64th birthday of Aung Saan Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy activist and ‘prisoner of conscience’ who has spearheaded the movement for democracy in Burma against all odds. There is this website (link) where you can submit your 64 words for the cause. Also read this article by Mukul Sharma on Kafila. Long [...]
Continue reading...27 February 2009
This was written in 2004 and was probably my first poem. These are only the excerpts from the full poem on Ambedkar. This is also a commentary on the caste system. In the ancient ages lived a man named Manu, a Hindu who devised a system in the valley Sindhu a system of fragmentation non-pareil in human [...]
Continue reading...23 February 2009
While living incessantly one does wonder wandering in life’s matrix and meander when most things in life are torn asunder what else could one do than of course wonder! the world is pain, indubitably that all of us have to undergo bear torture and damage – incalculably and inflict some, on friend and foe! I don’t believe in this though I wrote it! [...]
Continue reading...19 February 2009
This was my farewell poem to my friend Rubul Patgiri when he was leaving the Kaveri Hostel sometime in 2005; he had quit JNU for lecturership in Assam. This poem throws some glimpses on his personality. [I'm not in touch with him presently]. You may also see this farewell party invitation on this blog. His [...]
Continue reading...18 February 2009
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Continue reading...14 February 2009
Many years ago, I fell in love at the proverbial first sight. In the first sight, believe me or not, I did not see the woman! So, what did I see? I saw her nose! She was standing beside me (thanks to the haphazard queue) and my glance from the corner of my glasses landed on [...]
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19 June 2009
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