Has the experience

Nationhood and nationality,Black art and realism mixed with comicality,Fun and humour and merry-makingCombined with the flight of imaginationDreaming of imaginary homelands and their climes.

The excesses of yours,You too had been a manAnd you too had the limitationsOf your own.Had the English been against, you would not have beenA leader of the world statureAnd turned you into a pagletAs for them, the British,Who recognized in you,The talent of being the leader of the masses.I like your pagletgiri, but not…

And the rumour as an euphoria gripping all,Coming from far and wide,Spreading like some wildfireAnd engulfing it allThat Lord Ganesha sipping milk,An Indian god,As was broadcast,Sipping milk in the temples,Offered by the devotees directlyAs milk is lessening,Where all that gone instantly,The devotees wondering simply?Crowds gathered on, people talked ofThe miraculous and astounding taking of the…

From a clayware,A clay pipeTo smoke in ganja,Dam maro dam,Ganja tano tum,Hare Krishna hare Ram,Dam maro dam,Ganja tano tum,Ganaja tanoAur gana gao.Yah kiska dam hain, bhaiyya,Ganja ka,Chilum she ganja leta huya.Dam-strength, stamina, maro-take you at a stretch, ganja-marijuana

For more,It is right they demonstrated,Showed their anger,But overacted, overpoliticized itAnd the parties took the benefit fromAnd rather than being adamant and non-compromising,They should have compromisedInstead of their protest and slogansShedding their narrow allegiances and loyalties,Adherences to them, sticking to blindly,Protest you definitely shouting pro-India, anti-India slogansBut don’t be rigid, says it my theoryAs live…

The hills, cultures and dialectsOf it,I could notNagalad,The land of the NagasCloser to MyanmarJust on the fringe,Edge ofTo slip into passesTo transgressThe borders.