When darkness fades, and light enters you, You are dreaming well, you are dreaming true, But dreams are dull, colors have faded away, You are a black-and-white girl, or so they say. Can they be right? Are you just black-and-white? Or they haven’t seen your colors, Purple with rage, when I leave you alone, Pink…

A pleasing voice, a soothing tune, A fleeting face, a shadow to chase, How long will it last, This dream, this craze, The wasted youth, the wayward ways. Smoldering heart, bleeding pores, A searing pain, a gasp so blue, As death takes hold, As life drips away, The waiting eyes, the hopeful gaze.

When she went away, I thought it was a dream, I waited to wake up, To fight and make up, Oh! How naive I was! Sad but hopeful, Life will restart, But that was not to be.. It was the Warmth of a broken heart. Rustle in the wind? Was it her soothing sigh? Eyes…

When development issues are trumped by political imperatives and the ruled stay silent through the idiocy of the rulers, end will come.

(This is set to the music of Chivaraku Migiledi, a beautiful song from the movie Mahanati) १ कौम को, क्या हुआ, क्यों हवा, जल रही, धर्म क्यों, सर चढा, हर बशर, क्यों खुदा, आंधियां, वो चली, जिन्दगी, बुझ गयी, सोचते, हम रहे, लाश बन, के खडे, कब तुम बदले थे? कब हम बदले? कब सब…

A tribute to the nurse on International Nurse Day

My angst at the Covid carnage and call to build the country we want.

How low do we go before we deserve to go?