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Wednesday 23 October 2024
History Repeats
Tuesday 1 October 2024
Greetings
The sardar watchman, here
in our office,
greets us all in such chaste Arabic
that one can't help but
trace the etymology of the words
'Assalam-u-alaikum'
to Gurmukhi.
Arabic
Urdu
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Who knew
Peace would be gaurded
by so many languages?
that it would be multilingual?
Wednesday 18 September 2024
Progressives
The woman selling bangles
draped in a cheap cotton sari
looked misplaced in their selfie,
clicked just outside the opulent restaurant,
was thence removed from the picture
using the latest editing technology
from an expensive phone.
This generation has set down their markers right:
from eradicating poverty and hunger
they prefer erasing people and
unwanted tan.
That is some progress!
if only of the lowest kind!
Wednesday 4 September 2024
A Human Forest
As Winter approaches,
the doors and windows
swell with coldness.
Father says,
the wood shivers
due to heightened moisture,
longs for the Forest,
wishes to retain
its original shape,
as when it was that certain
type of Tree.
I can agree on this only:
they creak a lot when moved,
just like Humans in every season
sighing, aching and pining for what?
Who could say?
Thursday 29 August 2024
Grief is Memory's Souvenir
Remember that old mound
on which we used to
burn bonfires as children?
while ecstatically singing
'Jum Jum Naar
Az Batwaar' -
in early celebrations
of the upcoming Sunday,
and all those ones yet to come?
That mound, I hear, is no more:
is flattened and
on it rests a house.
They say a hearth
stands exactly on
the same spot.
However,
on weekends now
nothing burns there
except happiness.