• How Dare You Do This To Her?

    This is yet another poem dedicated to the MD of the company where my best friend works; yesterday she humiliated my friend in a harrowing three hour meeting in front of other team leaders, by telling her that she is not capable of being a lead. Apart from this atrocity, the company has a horrendous…

  • Just Imagine Your Luck

    Just imagine your luck It is barely an hour Since you began work for the day And it is a mountain of work That needs to be completed Faster than the speed of sound That too with the accuracy of a bullet Fired from a loaded AK47 And Ting! With a beep Your laptop goes…

  • We Had So Much Faith In You

    This poem is dedicated to ICICI Bank; they disabled my mother’s Debit card and Netbanking ID for no fault of hers on Saturday and drove her mad for two days; as she had to keep calling Customer Care executives who kept diverting her from department to department. Today finally my mother’s Netbanking ID has been…

  • My Journey With Meat

    It has been six years Since the journey began Into an entirely new world A world full of food Food that I never thought I’d taste Even in my wildest dreams But, as the cliche goes The forbidden fruit is the sweetest Of course, the beginning was basic at best Just a bowl of chicken…

  • My First Train Journey Since COVID19

    And…….finally….there it is!! A train journey after a long, long wait of a year and 8 months; thanks to the accursed pandemic!! Firstly, I must give you fair warning: this is not a usual trip report – it includes mainly railfanning observations at the source station; since it was a purely overnight journey. But it…

  • Oh Love, Why Do You Do This?

    Oh Love, why do you do this?Why do you evade me?I have waited and waitedFor more than 30 yearsCrushes came, crushes wentAnd then I fell in loveHead over heelsI was just 21 thenAnd doing my MBAAlas, it was one-sidedI never had the courageTo tell her the three magic wordsBy the time I finally did itI…

  • The army of rabbits

    When all hope seems lost When the world turns black When God turns his back on us And joins forces with the Devil When the roses have been replaced By the thorns beneath them When all the food in the world Turns into a pile of rotting moss And all the water Turns into sewage…

  • I deeply miss your music

    This poem is dedicated to my favourite music composer in India – Harris Jayaraj. Here goes the content: I deeply miss your music It has that charm It has that rhythm It has that symmetry Akin to the blades of a fan Whirring around, ever so smoothly Also like the gurgling of a stream Swiftly…

  • Reminiscing train travel before the pandemic

    The pandemic, ever since its formation at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, China; has claimed a gazillion lives globally. It has caused many more people to lose their jobs (and thus their livelihood, for the poor and the underprivileged). If you are not among either of these two categories; consider yourself extremely privileged, especially…

  • Oh, If only I were to love!

    My second love poem. Here goes the content; should be fairly self-explanatory: Oh, If only I were to love! Love, that rare commodity Your proverbial needle in the haystack Or a tiny drop of water In the vast mass of the mighty Pacific Ocean Or a tiny ember from a raging Mount Vesuvius It comes…