Elbow room

Two worlds collide.Your left,his right.It's a big battlefor elbow roomon an economy class flight.

If for a day

So some thoughts have been circling in my head for a while, looking at the nature of discussions over the internet, and a few that I have been part of. Putting them down in this poem, nothing radical, and perhaps not too poetic, just getting it out of my head. This cover of Pink Floyd's …

Tremors and tech

On Day 20, emotions run high, and technology is at the forefrunt of conflicts it was meant to resolve. We resolve one by creating a video tutorial and sharing it over WhatsApp. We get parents to share their screens through phone calls and mirrors, not by mirroring screens, but through the real glass ones on …

What if?

Noticed a lot of the poems - some of  mine too - I read these days has activist tones. This goes out to several poets, myself included. I wonder how poetry would thrive if the spikes of suffering, of sadness had been flattened out. How many would write about the magic in an orange moon as it …

Let our country sleep

  Take this. Nationalism. Wear it like a medal around your neck. If need be, take it off and use it to strangle those anti-nationals. You can use it any other way you wish. Roll it into a ball, and gag anyone who sets loose his evil tongue against your decrees, your beliefs, your definitions. …