You don't need visa,
you don't need passport.
You don't need to
take up the flight either.
Get into your imagination &
fly wherever you want to.-
For so many years, I had been thinking what is there in a name, until the day when I had to fill up my passport application form. My parents never had the foresight that his son would one day apply for passport and travel abroad . They named me just plain Srinivasan and called me Cheenu as is vogue in Tamilnadu.
The confusion arose which name , I should fill up in which column. First name, Given name, Sur name , middle name etc. Always I thought, First name is my name, Srinivasan. In my SSLC Certificate it was just N Srinivasan. Somehow I filled up the form, got my passport with my father's name first and my name appearing second. NARAYANAN SRINIVASAN and my wife's with my name first, SRINIVASAN HEMAMALINI.
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सोणीये....
पासपोर्ट तो हमारे पास भी अमरिका का था
पर तेरी देसी चाल के लटके में अटक गये...-
दिल है खंडहरों सा वीरान
ऊपर से लगते सभी फोर्ट हैं।
लबों पर रखते मुस्कान सब
आँखों में छुपा एक पोर्ट है।
मिलते रहो अपनों से भी
क्योंकि टाइम बहुत शॉर्ट है
ख़ुदा रखता कर्मों का हिसाब
उसका फुल जस्टिस कोर्ट है।
डूब कर जियो हर लम्हे में
लिमिटेड वैलिडिटी पासपोर्ट है।
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I am waiting
for that passport
to be issued
that will allow me
to travel to your heart
to take a dip in your love filled eyes
to loiter in those dark alleys of your memories
to unravel those paths that your words make
to make a caravan in you
to be lost in you....-
No passports, no visas, birds need ;
They are messengers of peace,
They traverse with ease
The barriers of distrust and greed.
They have no creed,
No hatreds they breed ;
Their music is free of any load,
And this world is their abode !-
और ज़रा सा महामारी का दौर क्या चला
सारे अमेरिका कन्नेड्डा वाले भारत वापिस आ गए-
Hey International Traveller,
You entered my heart without passport or visa.
I have the right to detain you, but still the rules can be amended for you.
"Visa on arrival" granted.-
This journey awaits us with surprised entries and unexpected exits of mankind, which is the passport to a new phase of one's life.
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