Your psychology,

Shadows go shiftingAnd values and thinkings changing.Many of the freedom fighters were but the blunt people,The rustics and ruffians,The lathi menWith big dandas into their handsTo save from snakes and other wild animals,To keep as a help for old age,To drive the thieves awaySome of them not, but most of them critical fellows,I mean the…

Of Maihar gharana,What sort of,Sort of discipleHad it beenYou Ravi ShankarThat married he your bitia,Annapurna DeviAnd left her,Making her sacrifice her talentIn surbahar, bass sitar?Baba,Baba Allauddin Khan,Say, say you, O Baba,Of Maihar gharana,What,What sort of discipleWas heRavi Shankar?

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…

Fearing the fundamentalists,She will not returnFrom perhapsAs she has becomeThe loveOf an American Jewish boy.The Pakistani dulhanOf the American Jewish boy,An intercontinental marriageCutting the boundariesOf which but it dividesWhich but love knows it notAnd the protagonist too has to growWith the changing to times.

As we cannot compromise withOur hegemony,Our ego and hypocrisyThat men and women are equal,But discriminate we,Torture and torment themTaking for women.For quite a long timeKept we in the burqa,The purdah,The ghunghataFor hiding themAnd calling our own.The womanIf she is not in the houseThe house not a houseYou will understandWhen she will not be.The woman a…

Forgot,Forgot you even hour first wife,Smt.Santoshi,Smt.Santoshi Devi,What,What sort of researcher,Researcher were you, pandit?