Journey of the Journeyman

 Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert […]

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why does painrhyme with migraine ?

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 The night I needed your love MostYou shed a silver teardrop for meBathed me in pity
Alone in this city,Broken-knee soldierI cried to be held For once, in your arms
You, mere friend,Run to the bazaarFastest foot in townBuy me the strongest crutchDark sheesham brown “Here, take theseI will have you in my prayers”
“Have me in your blossoms, […]

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Wrote a poem for Sourav and Swagata, whose marriage on the 20th I won’t be unfortunately able to attend.
the man and the ladythey stand at the altarthe moon’s in attendance andso are the stars
the man and the lady they’re up at the altarcupid has checked in withstreamers and flowers
the man and the ladypledge vows round […]

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True Love Will Never Fade is the first song on Knopfler’s new album, Kill To Get Crimson. Another love song, you’d think, professing eternal union.
I fixed a needle in a holder
Laid my hand upon your spine
And there upon your shoulder
I drew the picture as your sign
When I think about us
I see the picture that we […]

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I’m writing to tell you, dahlin’ please
Let me live my life at ease
You do more harm than you do good
When you want to help enliven my mood
I know it’ll hurt but I really want to say
Just stay
Out of my way
To help me you say your fingers were itchin’
And then you barge uncalled for into my […]

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Ashish told me that Kamayani and he are moving to Bihar to work fulltime on social/economic issues. This couple never ceases to amaze me. They left their luxurious life in the USA and returned back to India to enable Kamayani to pursue social activism. Even in the USA, I remember these two people participate at the […]

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I have read very little of Ogden Nash. But I chanced upon this today and makes me want to read him cover to cover !
When called by a panther,
Don’t anther.
– “The Panther”

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It had been quite a while Aditi and I had seen a movie in a theater together. If my memory serves me right, it was Spiderman, 2003. The last Hindi flick was Lagaan, 2001. Today, after a long time, we went to see a movie. It is called “Taare Zameen Par”. It was a movie […]

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I was cleaning out my room when an old, slender, leather-bound diary made its appearance.  Way back from 1997. Flickering through the pages, I found a lot of names and phone numbers from the past, people I once knew, who once knew me. A bunch of todo lists, mostly related to winning votes in the […]

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