Love not the body of flesh and blood merely,

In whichThe statueBlackly but beautiful,A replica of Nataraja Shiva,Shiva, Shiva, shiva,Lord ShivaAs the Cosmic DancerIn His mood of ananda,O, the Anandam Murti,The Joyous Statue,Shiva in a dancing pose,A dancing posture of His!Lord Shiva, Shiva, Shiva,A statue of the Cosmic Dancer,A small replicaIn the museumBeaming with light,Light and joy,Shiva Shiva,Shiva in a trance,In a mood of…

What, what have we for the widows, women and poor daughters,What have we for the eradication and elimination of poverty?Had it been otherwise, the stories of hunger and povertyWould not have done the rounds here.With a very heavy heart, he can read the newspapers coveringThe news items dealing with,Terrorism, rape, loot, corruption, domestic violence,Political insurgency,…

A regimented cadre,A levy-giving hardcore fellow,Blind to one’s ideology,Moving along the party line strictly.Party, party, party, party and politics,The keyword,The hub and the peripheryRound which moves this life of his,Party, party, party and politicsAnd he politicking all, the time.To poke and provoke the poor,To pin the rich,To make the factories locked,The work of a communist,The…

Funny and punning,Rhyming and complimenting.A word coinerBreaking and joining,Dovetailing,Always playing and punning with words.A poet frivolousLight and nonsensicalPlayingAnd flirting with poesy and rhymes.

With mortars, shells, guns, axes and hammersI mean Judas, Don Quixote, nailing and crucifying on the Cross,Quixotes fighting with the windmill,What a silly ideas was it!They trying to wipe out pre-dating them, history, art, culture and traditionIn the swings of fanaticism, conservatism and theocracy,The religiously blind people.What wrong the Buddhas can do to them, why…

Of Bombay,Bombay and its history,The history of BombayFrom an island to a metropolitan cityTo a mega one.