Whistling,

With the luggageSo heavy upon,You running,Missing to catch the train!Trainmen is there,There to help youWith its updates aboutLate arrival and departures,Right times of incoming, outgoing trains,You need not worry about!Why to run for to catch,Cross the railway track,The crossingWith the luggage and the pantsGoing down one by one?Trainman is there,There with its charts and time-tables,Gathering…

I cannot be happy, I cannot be happy,My love, breaking your heart,Heart and giving tears,Tears to your, your eyes, my darling,It is none but I, IWho made you weep,It is none, but I, IWho made you weep, break down,Break down, none, none, but I, I,My love, which but God will not,Will not forgive, forgive, my…

Grey-hairedHanumansJumping, hanging byThe branches,Alighting,Striding alongThe road,Pausing by the housesTo ask forFood peculiarly,For loaves of bread,Bananas,Cucumbers,Biscuits,Water,Hanumans,Black-mouthed,Grey-hairedHanumans.Sitting byThe roadside,Asking forFoodWith a troupe,Father,Mother,Son and daughter,One near the hut,Another atop it,Another by the treeHanging onto,Eating the leavesAnd going byOne by oneHanuman,Black-mouthedHanumans.

Jackson,Jackson, Jackson,Michael Jackson!

Without the post-officeAnd the shops,Sleeping by nightfall,Getting darker and solitary,Without the lights,Just the wicked earthen lamp burningWith the oil burning somewhereWith insufficient lightAnd that too not everywhere.The village boys and girls half-fed and half-clothedTelling of a poor India,Clumsy and poorly dressed,The hair of the girl without oil and lousyAnd the boy if with the shortsBut…

Which I wanted to catch and bringBut who was to help meWhen I was a child?When the race horses were abandonedAnd the shows closed downAnd the horse-carriages were stoppedAs for the tri-wheeler autorickshaws,I felt sad and moroseWhen I saw the asses lying left out on the roadsTo die in harness as for the washer men…