Thursday, December 28, 2006

Where is Swadesh Deepak?

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In an old mansion, on Ambala's Mall road He lay in his room, doing nothing, only speaking to characters. His thoughts went berserk like ...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Should I take you to Shaheen?

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A poem for a woman called Shanta.
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Monday, December 25, 2006

Houses for you

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Oh, it is not that we are not concerned! Look! We have made houses for you And they are made of proper brick and mortar The soil is the sam...
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Sunday, December 24, 2006

Flower dreams

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I remember, one day While sitting Just like that You made on A pack of cigarettes Kept on my table A sketch of a plant Come and see it now A...
Saturday, December 23, 2006

Meeting Big B on NH 8

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It is virtually the last milestone of prosperity, also marking the end of Gurgaon. As young software techie couples, wearing Nike sneakers a...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Between the pages

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Often in your books I discovered dried flowers And in my books, the winds That dried them In winds like those I go out, wearing, these days ...
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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Her Master's voice

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In a Rajasthan village, a woman sarpanch stays at home, while her husband conspires with the Panchayat to grab land belonging to Bheel triba...
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Friday, December 15, 2006

Dignity of the dead

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"How old is this?," the young labourer asks me. I take the plastic can filled with water from his hands without answering him. I...
Sunday, December 10, 2006

Landless in Punjab

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Beyond the facade of prosperity in Punjab, lays hidden a grim tale of numerous landless workers, who are caught in a cycle of indebtness and...
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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Punjab: A Bihar in Making?

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In Punjab’s Malwa region, upper caste landlords are creating ‘ Ranvir Senas ’ in response to the growing Dalit assertion. The first tellta...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Pratibha's remarriage?

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The number of farmers committing suicide in Vidarbha since June 2005 has risen upto 1,136. In November alone, this year, 91 farmers have co...
Monday, November 20, 2006

The scarecrows of Kolezari

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The village of Kolezari in Vidarbha’s Yavatmal district is a sample of government’s short-sightedness and administrative apathy. The board a...
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Friday, November 17, 2006

Heads I win, tails you lose

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As farmers in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra continue to be driven to suicide, it is the sarkari babus who are really benefitting from t...
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Saturday, November 11, 2006

India Social Forum, 2006

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India Social Forum
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'India Shining' in Khairlanji

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Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange cannot sing. His wife or daughter were not models, walking over the ramps in fashion shows. In fact, nobody from the Bh...
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Friday, October 13, 2006

Chess and Nirvana: A travel along the Ganges

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One October afternoon, in 1994, a young, bespectacled man arrived at a roadside resort on the Delhi-Dehradun highway. He was accompanied by ...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Nonsense offerings of Peace

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Drink tea from a bone-china saucer with a slurp. Walk on a highway, whistling, hands in pockets. Listen to a Mohammed Rafi song, in darkness...
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Thursday, October 05, 2006

The Missing Man: Part 4

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There are so many strange things in life. Like the noise that you hear occasionally in your head. Or the fact that the only thing you forget...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The Missing Man (Parts 2 & 3)

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Part 1 He woke up from his alcohol-induced sleep. He looked at the watch. It was 7.39 am. A straight line of sunlight sieved through two fol...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Three friends and days of leisure

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A poem dedicated to heady days of late 96 and early 97
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