Half Husband

She is my spouse sitting beside me coolly, Looking very ordinary and simple. Appearing very calm but self-full of hidden arrogance, Like Narcissus superiority and there she lives with me. Designed by parents but people failed simple countenance, The ignorance and passion hid behind silence, How such a guise came there? Such stuff Crafted after […]

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Shahrukh and his Dreams

Shahrukh was the best friend of mine, We studied together in childhood time, He was always last in studies and line, And never cares about the lessons fine.   When asked some questions about history, He thought it as if was an Arabian mystery, All laughed at his mess as if he was a jockey, […]

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“MeLord is an Honourable Man”

Friends, Indians, Hindus, hark! dark days ahead; I come to cremate a be-headed dead, A blameless soul, not to protect him. The sin that humans perform lives after death; The good is mostly burnt with the bones; So let it be with the guiltless soul. The gracious MeLord Hath blamed that comment from an arrogant […]

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Celebrating Poverty

With sound high I come, with my agenda and my manifesto,I celebrate poverty for usual victors only, I shout poverty-poverty for dead and defeated persons.A defeated man’s thoughts of schools, A defeated man enjoying freebies and never-ending rest, Blooms with life itself, cannot have. Now I know the masses and the leaders;And these I observe […]

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No place for Secularism

It has become a fashion in this country to discuss and talk about secularism on the one hand but supporting special benefits and privileges for minorities. Secular democracy is boasted as the best asset in India but in practice, secularism and democracy rotate only in appeasing some castes and minorities. The Hindu community is the […]

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Coffee and the Book

A foggy winter evening, Covered in dark clothing, Through the haze, silently sitting; Hot-coffee and me–sipping; In a desolate corner of the cafe.     A Muslim,  a Jew, a Christian; A Hindu, an Atheist-all sitting; They gossip, drink, laughing, Like good old friends, beaming; Life became good and teeming.   Then came two gentlemen, staring; […]

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An Intersectional Feminist Study of Smashing Islamic Patriarchy in Meera Syal’s My Sister Wife

Meera Syal (born 1963) is a very popular English actress and writer. She has written many screenplays and two novels. She has also won many prestigious awards including Media Personality of the Year in 2001. She has Indian roots and descendent of an Indian family. She was born in a small town near Wolverhampton in […]

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Song of My Nation

Song I hear Bharat Mata singing, the diverse hymns I hear; The farmer singing his, as he tills his fields, The student singing his, as he turns the pages; The soldier sings him, as he flutters his guns. Ask not, what you can get from your Mother Land: Ask yourself, what you can give to […]

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O My Justice!

Where the nation is liberated of the fifty million pending cases; Where judges and judiciary are free of dates and adjournments;Where the people have not been tormented by the narrow procedural laws;Where Aryans and Salmans are not treated as special creatures; Where the cases are not delayed and lost due to aggressive Sibals and Singhvis; […]

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Move beyond the quotas

As was expected media is given big space to the announcement to the promise by Congress and announced by its star campaigner Mrs Priyanka Gandhi. It appears that Indian leaders are highly obsessed with reservation and quotas and they have no other constructive and positive idea in their armour. UP has only 403 assembly seats. […]

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