Alienation

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It's 4.30 am
Operation theater is blasting
With telugu and Punjabi songs
To suck sleep from surgeon's eyes.
The grandma lays on the table
Telling me, how she has nobody at home
To take care of her.

It's 4.45 am
Operation theater is blasting
With kannada songs
Surgeon asks me, what's the post op advice
You would give to patient with AKA
Before I could answer, he laughs and says
That she should pray to God to take her
Before her wound gets infected again.

It's 5.00 am
Sleep spills in my eyes
Like the blood on my gown
I ask the relative if they want grandma's foot.
They shake their heads.
The Operation theater is quieter now.

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When the people dressed
In ironed attire
Will stand in the same line as
Those in torn clothes,
My country will gain
Independence

When the daughters will walk
Confidently on lonely lanes
Without carrying pepper spray
In the folds of their sarees,
My country will gain
Independence

When the youth will break free
From the shackles of silence
When the black money won't be
Divided among the cackling shadows,
My country will gain
Independence.

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ऐ समंदर...

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Elephants never forget

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Occult

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Perhaps this is what contentment is.
Sitting in a cosy home after a long day;
A book in one hand, your hand in the other,
Sipping coffee brewed with gentle love,
Sleep in our eyes, thick as the morning fog.

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Against aesthetics

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