Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Beeping in exuberance

The android days are here. I love it. My boyfriend loves it. My boss loves it. Even my friends (mostly) love it.
My mom, however, believes rather firmly, that it is the new age demon.
That which breaks relationships, separates mother from daughter, father from daughter, grandparents from daughter.. well, for the most part, everybody from daughter.
Now the fact remains that I love my Android. And I cannot exactly elucidate why it might be a pertinent means of building relationships of the future as well as a very potent weapon that helps in doing apparently useless but fun things like spying on ex-es or even bursting bubbles and playing with livid birds.

So as the respective gods of mankind will have it, I play with my Andy (my beloved droid, that is) with a lot of zeal, simultaneously complaining about its diminishing battery backup, while enthusiastically being on the receiving end of condemning glares from essential family members. Once in a while, I am subjected to lengthy discussions (always unidirectional in nature) about the necessity to live in reality, behave with elders and reciprocate with humanity in person. (I do not exactly understand where me and my droid come in, though).
More often, I am subdued in gyaan about my duties towards mother nature in general, and mother in particular, and also about the impending doom that I shall face in my future in-laws' abode due to my sheer ignorance about managing household chores and the scary habit called cooking.

I shall hereby conclude my rant as I have to get back to my Andy. He beeps in anticipation.

Ciao humanity.
Love.

Friday, November 4, 2011

When Mind has No Meaning

A thousand splendid sons
Will laugh as u go by
You'll trip and fret and miss a step
Hoping for their prying eye

A thousand splendid sons
Will hug u tight and warm
You'll fight and flee the sanity
And miss the choking charm

You'll call the stars and moon
To grace your dinner treat
And in the midst of wine and power
Your sons will lie in sleep...

Photo courtesy: Varun Raizada

Complete Nothingness


Its been a long time since the words have flown. Isn't it irritating how often there are myriad things running through the mind, but only a handful of them have names, while fewer come with faces. Yet all of them mean something, either in exclusion or as a tiny piece of the bigger puzzle. If only language had fewer boundaries. If only life had fewer...

Its a noisy cacophony one has to live in nowadays.
Its irritatingly noisy, this silence.


"Now that you've met me what will you do?
Will you try me or not? Its up all up to you
I can bring you more misery than words can tell
Come take my hand let me lead you to hell"

Can you see the flickering light at the end of the tunnel?
Wondering now, should I die by this one?
Should I wait?


Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Tor jonye, opekkha

Chol,
Aaj khelbo ekta monkharaper khela,
Shotti bol,
Parbi ki tui shongo amay dite?

Parbi?
Ekta golokdhadhay shupto hahakar
Muchki heshe, bina sleshe,
Apon kore nite?

Pother pashe, Jheeler dhare
Choragacher majhe
Chotto phuleo gondho chhoray
Dekhte bhalo lage...

Agnikander agun bhape, motto ottohashi -
Shei hashite, parbi, ekta thatta khuje pete?


Jodi dekhish jachi pore
Kono sagor 'pore,
Parbi amay gobhir jole
Shanto kore dite?