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How to do the entertaining talks,Sprinkling a pinch of salt and the spicesTo make it dainty?Turbaned and dyed,Looking young even in his old age,Failing his son,Khushwant is the man to be reckoned with,A master gossiper,A master talker,A politico, a journo and a literateur.From Lahore to London to Delhi,He can say about,The trend and tenor prevalentIn…

And joyful spirits,Do not take it bad,It’s Holi,Smear the powderOn the face,Sprinkle coloured waterOn me,It’s Holi!The wind too as suchFalgun monthOf the Hindu calendarThat the wind tooPlaying HoliIt seems to beAs the dust keeps itSwirling sometimes,The transitionWinter to summer,Bura mat mano,It’s Holi,The season of festive spirit!

Keep the lips sealedOtherwise face the wrath and ire,You will be called in the evening to the party officeTo settle scores.Their suppression and repression famous world-wide,How do they torture the non-communists,How do they crush the democracy movements,How do they suppress people’s protests for relaxation,How do they censure the press,The high-handed handling of the tougher law-makers,The…

The north or the west of IndiaOr voices from the northeast?Even if there are poets,They cannot be called born,But made,Just poetic voices in the making,Had there been, we would have heard definitely.Just after reading K.R.S.Iyengar’s history book,The poetical people are trying their bestTo come through this politicsOf the subaltern,Which is just a platform to highlight…

Which comes from knowledge.Thinking-power.

As lie I in a college,But the inferior candidates at the varsityAre guidesAnd many are still doing Ph.D.,But are not,This is India,You see.Even after twenty years’ of intensive researchAnd poetry-writing,I am not a Ph.D. guideNor a poetAs my c.v. tells it not,Bluffs it not,My bio-profile I myself do notAs have not tidied up my chits…