Silence of Corona

The bells have stopped buzzing, Nor does the Azans piercing, Sermons of the pastor no mincing, Only death has increased counting. Lifts are empty running, No visitor to see liftman smiling, The loud chatter of colleagues missing, Loss is the caption of the daily morning. Bread-milk supplier nowhere going, Cab drivers have stopped plying, Traffic […]

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Trapped Humanity

Trapped in the lockdown, horrible phase, Humanity struggling to calm the rage, Hospitals chained in the monetary gaze, Nothing left to halt the deadly phrase. As the dice of death spreading death fear, No remedy, only to shed the tear;Only a pen to vent the anger near, Family, friend and colleagues, all jeer. All try […]

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NO MASK ON YOUR EYES

Remove mask from your eyes, Don’t live in false illusion.Ideas appear so weak, In times similar to these, Life is the most valuable treat, And death biggest cheat. The intensity of your pain, No one can realize trail, But I’ll be beside you, In the gloom be two. Love is a bond inseparable, That death […]

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Only Gratification

Neha has been working in a reputed company for the last many years. Neha has two little cute kids. Mahira was in her third year of Engineering. Neha made Mahira her new friend and both like each other a lot. Most of the time at home, Neha was very much with her husband and they […]

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Celebrating defeat

I got a chance to visit the Bhima-Koregaon “victory pillar” in Koregaon, in Maharashtra, commemorating the British East India Company victory over the Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy on 1 January 1818 and ensuing rule of the British East India Company in nearly all of Western, Central and Southern India. Every day, on my visit, […]

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Do thy work: work is worship

Whenever my students and cadets ask me for truly some serious advice, I advice, “Learn to do your work, specially prepare your own bed to sleep. “ My immature students go away laughing at me, saying, “Sir is still hundred years back and will never change…“ However, I am very serious. Doing one’s own work […]

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‘Oxford bimari’ made this love story

When this ‘Oxford bimari’ hit the people, nobody could understand it like ‘China bimari.’ Nobody was bothered. It took everybody to the seventh cloud. I also joined lakhs of other people, running to Mumbai, Delhi and other big cities to fulfill their dreams. But, suddenly men-women in my slum cluster started running away from Delhi […]

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1947 Revisited

I have read about the plight of refugees in 1947, But now, abandoned by their own countrymen, Pushed to a mass exodus to their villages, Calling us migrants and outsiders. Stopped at the borders, Like a nation unknown. Branded as the spreader of China Corona, Death was always chasing us, Death from hunger, death on […]

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Corona Sermon

Pray to God! To lift China Corona, Like smoke, And push it into the fire of hell. Take a pledge, never to handshake; Discipline our tongue, Cut gossiping with neighbours, And colleagues at work. Avoid crowded theatres and weekend out;Sermons at the pulpit and Friday gatherings. Don’t compel kids to rush schools every day, Like […]

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Poor Brahmin, cow and the feast of food

It was squalor, nuclear family neglect, selfishness and the modern technological world lurking everywhere—the situation could not have been shoddier for a poor, retired Brahmin teacher Pundit Ram Prasad Sharma. It was times of distress for Pundit Ram Prasad Sharma in the month of Ramzan, a month of the feast. However, master Ji has no […]

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