A Song For You..

Rushing through crowds,
Thousand things to say,
Getting to each other,
& then turning away.

A step forward,
Then two behind,
Believers of destiny,
Happy with what we find.

Separate worlds,
We both belong to,
In different spheres,
with a common view.

So steal a glance,
Share a smile,
Read my mind,
Stay a while.

You being around isn't being with you,
but times together are too few,
And every moment you are there,
is better than one without you.

Hear me out loud today,
singing for just us two,
A song from me,
A song for you.


Writing mush and not writing anything at all..chose the lesser of two evils. :P

Cry..

I know that she will cry,
till her conscience will die,
Dreams will linger awhile,
Moving away mile-by-mile.

Did you hear the pleading voice?
Maybe it got lost in the noise,
Destiny's minor slip,
Alive once,now a fading blip.

The clouds of gloom will part,
The darkness will leave their heart,
Every time she told herself aloud,
whilst her future lay adorned in a shroud.

Used,reused,abused,
to a commodity,an individual reduced,
Her sentence has been read,
Now to the gallows,hope be lead.

Yet,her silence wasn't consent,
Just her faith totally spent,
We simply stood and stared,
While her soul was bared.

As she looks into my cold eyes,
She has stopped questioning 'why'?
Her tears will never run dry,
I know that she will cry.

Artist's Soliloquy

Who am I?

I question myself daily.I am called by so many different names that it befuddles me.

I am an artist.A painter,a sculptor,a musician,a playwright.Sometimes I amaze myself with my talents.

However,unlike most members of my community,I do not revel in the adulation showered upon me.Unlike most my compatriots,I do not take pride in my creations.Unlike most of them,I have no delusions of grandeur.Unlike most,I feel no shame in admitting that my best is behind me.

And yet I find that there is more hype and clamour around me than ever before.Andy Warhol once said,'Death can make you a star';well,I am alive,acclaimed and amused about it.

So,what do I make out of all this?Have you started accepting mediocrity as merit,perceiving destructive as deserving,below-par as brilliance?And if so,who is responsible?Or is it simply that self-appointed intermediaries are doing a fantastic job of moulding your opinions and judgement.

Let me be honest,I believe that you have lost so much of yourself that you need something other than yourself to believe in and it ends up being me.Something which in all the upheaval can still remind you of beauty,tranquility,lucidity.I am fine with the fact.The only problem being,your placing faith in what others say about me,but not in me.

It saddens me to admit that your decline is greater than mine and is perhaps the cause of my downfall too;for an artist can only be as good as his patrons.

Yet you live in a state of denial,believing in my infallibility because you can't care to admit your own decadence.

Generally you pray to me but today I pray to you,step out of your ignorance,leave behind trivialities,forget your differences;you call me God but I am simply the best that's still left in you.

Kupid's Kurriculum..

She was the best example of Pull Marketing,

A product not needing any STP,

There are only 4 Cs for her,

Coz' her competition nobody can be.

To hell with Social Transformation,

For my self-transformation,she's a start,

No need for any reservations,

when she's getting affirmative action from my heart.

Maslow was an old fart,

She's the only motivation I need,

Screw all forms of conditioning,

Whatever she says,I'll pay heed.

In everything I tried 'excel'ling,

but no what-if analysis could analyze her,

Goal-seek was not helping achieve objectives,

Chic Relationship Management(CRM) was a disaster.

From face-to-face to e-mail,

I used all channels of communication,

despite the psychological noises about me that she heard,

She was wooed by coercion and manipulation.

Her demand was inelastic,

and her marginal costs too steep,

while I was trying to create a monopoly,

A perfect competition she was trying to keep.

She was always in a mean mode,

and there was our variance in our thoughts,

There was no median in compromises,

and mutually disjoint lives we finally sought.

My accountant friends consoled me,

that wooing women is a Going Concern,

but if I ever seek a women again,

Remember the Principal of Conservatism.

@Nerds-Please ignore any academic deviations

@Non-nerds- I dont belong to the above group despite the above content

Objects Of Affection..

The crowded dance floor,

Stalling at the door,

memories each moment,

new footprints on seashore.

Countlessly re-read notes,

That lent winter coat,

Needing each other like,

the shipwrecked on a boat.

The lost favourite scarf,

The beer drunk half,

Still searching together,

finding no new reasons to laugh.

Empty photoframes,

Once fondly used nicknames,

Us changing each day,

yet trying to be the same.

The perfume's whiff,

U2 playing that melancholic riff,

not wanting to let go through,

the last unresolved tiff.

Tickets from the rock show,

A skidding car on snow,

Two years & still burning,

in your afterglow.

INXS's Afterglow and U2's With or Without You :P

Who Let The Dogs Out?!

That is the question which has raised a furor amongst many a political and self-proclaimed moral policing outfits after the elopement of a female Cocker-Spaniel with a male Boxer,from Bandra,a suburb in Mumbai.

Binabaat Raadakar,spokesperson for Parvati Army which is at the forefront of the protest,on being approached,had this to say,"This is intolerable.Do you know who the Boxer is owned by?!A Bhaiya!We shall kidnap all bitches from UP to extract vengeance!"

On being asked if there were no relevant issues to raise,Mr.Raadakar was scathing,"How are we to survive?!Bigger political parties steal all our cool ideas like beating up cabbies,burning books,vandalizing colleges etc.We have filed a case of IPR(Intelligence to Properly Riot) violation against all such outfits."

Meanwhile,UP Chief Minister Mayawati has decided to replace the statues of 12,34,234 Elephants that she has built across UP using public money,with that of the canine couple and hold a State Banquet in their honour.This is what she had to say,"She chose the dog from UP because Uttar Pradesh is Uttam Pradesh!My generous gesture for the couple is also a message to Rahul Gandhi and agitating farmers in Noida,'Make Love,Not War'",following it up with a flying kiss.

Last heard,Rahul Gandhi has gone into hiding after receiving this message from Ms.Mayawati.

Meanwhile,a Khap Panchayat in Haryana is also up in arms against this union and has declared that the couple be stoned on sight,"How can they marry?!!I have traced their pedigree and the couple belongs to the same Gotra!".A reward of 10000 bones has also been declared for any dog which might possess any information about the couple.

Meanwhile,Pakistan has raised this issue to attack India in international circles,Bakwaas Sayani,Pakistani Representative to the UN told the media,"Janaab,have you ever heard of a dog being harmed in Pakistan?70 people may die in blasts daily but there are no casualties of dogs".In a huge gaffe he added,"Hamare vatan mein har kutte ka istiqbal(welcome) hai!".Reports suggest that attacks by Taliban have intensified after this statement.

Jairam Ramesh,the Minister for Environment who is also handling Animal Welfare Department,on being approached,assaulted our reporter,"I don't give a shit about dogs!I just care about CAT!Tell me,do you thinks IITs,IIMs are world class?Tell me!",to which our reporter replied,"No Idea",at which point Abhishek Bachchan appeared out of nowhere and our reporter had to flee the scene.

Even Bollywood has displayed interest in this story and reports suggest that Ekta Kapoor,the head of Balaji Telefilms is joining hands with popular film director Karan Johar to produce a TV show tentatively titled 'Kahani Kutton Kay-It's all about loving your Pets'.Rakhi Sawant and Dolly Bindra are said to be pitching for the lead role.

However the couple has found an unlikely supporter in veteran actor Dharmendra,he said,"All my life I have been threatening the canine community about drinking their blood,this is my chance for redemption;the couple is welcome at my home,they can take Bobby's room,ullu da pattha still can't get a hit movie without me!"

The couple which has maintained silence so far,has requested PETA(Please Engage Troubling Assholes) to act on their behalf.Illaiya Nunnuswami, PETA Chairman, made this statement,"Clearly,the nation has gone to the dogs, but the dogs of the nation have epitomized the ideals of Love,Tolerance and Co-existence we were once famous for".

Clearly,our nation has 99 problems,but a bitch ain't one!

Asteroids..

A couple of wanderers,

travelling towards a common destination,

Protagonists in a fairy tale,

who triumph over any situation.

But neither is there an end to this journey,

Nor a happy ending to this tale,

and yet we soldier on ahead,

on a quest most say,is bound to fail.

On set paths in space,

Like asteroids we all glide,

and somewhere,somehow,something,

makes our paths coincide.

You and me drew each other,

Thanked our destinies,thanked the Universe,

Failing to realize that when our paths met,

We simply were set on a collision course.

And when the inevitable collision happened,

Everyone believed us to be broken and shattered,

While I simply said,'We have changed,

losing parts of ourselves that never mattered'.

And now we set forth again,

on newer paths,of old remembrances devoid,

until we meet again somewhere,

you and me,asteroids.

Rusty stuff! :P