Faiths and beliefs
Of the countryside,
Rustic practices and customs
Of the people
Their conventions and habits and manners,
Mindsets and ideas
With some conventional thought-patterns,
Their dresses and myths and motifs.
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An American or a Jew,
In CalcuttaOr by the ghats of BenaresIn search of peace,Peace,Mental peace,CosmicAnd psychic.A BeatOr a Beatle,A yogiOr a bhogi,A sadhu or a fakiraWesternLeaving his allIn search of peace,Bliss, happinessTrying to ascend the ladder.
The theatre of the stage,
Coloured men and coloured scenes,Decorators, costume directors,Script writers, managers,Florists, light men.
In the wide words
heard IMoney, Money,o, Money,Sweet Money,O, Honey!Wherever went I,Found I peopleWhispering,Talking,Money, Money,O, Money,You are Honey!So, friends,If you have moneyIn your pocket,The world is yours,Yours,but fall you not,Not in a bad companyTo ruin it yourself!Leave you poetry and philosophyThe talks of these,If have no moneyYou are a poet,A philosopher,If have money,Why to turn to theseFor idling away?Money,…
The candle is burning
Trying to grapple with love and its sadnessWiping the tears all but myselfFeeling for and writing,Putting the unputdownable on paperAnd the tear drops sometimes making the paper wet withTears fallen ontoIn somebody’s memoryWhom love I so muchBut cannot expressOr have lostWhoever be he or she,But with whom to share the feelingsAs see I no friend…
The Mallas,
Bishnupur,Who,who were they,Kshatriyas or Bagdis upgraded,The Mallas,The Mallas of Mallabhum,Bishnupur?The Singhs,Singh Thakores of Bishnupur,The Mallas of Mallabhum,The Mal tribes peopleOr the KshatriyasWith forts and terracotta templesAnd potteries?
They staged it beautifully just like the theatre personae
Of the street theatres, nukkad sabhasOr the people doing panchayitiAs spokespersons, protagonists, mouthpiecesOf protests and movements, peace movementsBut over continued, overdid they in acting,Protesting and staging of the dramaShowing the facades of liberty and people’s charters,Constitutionalism and constitution-makingBut got they trapped in party and politics,Political ideologies and fascinations,Rather than lingering they must have come toThe…