Happy Diwali
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Read MorePray for those who are suffering
Tweet Oh God! I’m feeling miserable! It’s 12.30 in the night, as the rain pours incessantly, suddenly the sight of those black polythene sheet covered hutments that I had seen just last week, flashes across my eyes. In my mind I saw the old man telling me about daily wages in UP, the young kids playing around and begging to be photographed , the goat chewing placidly and the young men teaching us how to steal the pavement hand-rails…..and suddenly it hit me…….this was a tragedy I was watching unfold. I remembered that long unending row of polythene...
Read MoreMy dearest Chulbuli Pandey – a letter to the Yamuna river in flood
Tweet My dearest Chulbuli Pandey, Aah! Yamuna meri jaan – kya dabangg cheez ho tum ! Ekdum se aisa jhatka de diya, ki sab ko hilaa kar rakh diya! Kyun chhamiya – itna gussa kis baat ka ?? Like Shahrukh ‘Don’ Khan’s ‘Junglee Billi’ - in one fit of anger you’ve demolished all delusions we had about being your masters! We thought we’d tamed you – we Zero sized you, by damming you up; weighed down your frail body by dumping all our kachra in you – and sat happily in our ivory towers thinking – bhookhi billi kya panja maregi?? Your long time,...
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