tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87132508555698425012024-03-05T07:56:36.681-08:00Tales of the WanderlustTales from far flung regions of my world....Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-54658183533891525112014-07-14T00:09:00.000-07:002014-07-14T00:09:10.857-07:00The Foreign Trip<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;">The wails of her
younger sister wake up Anju. ‘Don’t sleep like a buffalo, get up and attend to
your sister’ screamed her grandmother, in between her bouts of cough, caused by
the oven than burns damp firewood. Anju got up, rolled her mat, picked up her
younger sister and soothed her. She had a couple of hours before she goes to Rathi
madam’s house to wash clothes and clean vessels. Today, madam had asked her to
come early. Her son, daughter in law and grand children have come from New
York. She is planning a special lunch. Anju always liked the family, as they
are nice generous people. Anju knew that she will get some money, chocolates
and so she was looking forward to her work today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;">There was a lot
of work to be done, the now Americanized daughter in law of Rathi madam felt
guilty about how people were treated in our country. She gave Anju 100 rupees
as bonus! Anju thought she should buy some trinkets for her and medicines for grandmother.
The rest she has to give to grandmother without appa knowing, else he will snatch
and squander it on liquor. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;">When in the
market she saw a parrot astrologer and as sixteen year old, full of dreams,
wanted to know what is in store for her, in the future. The astrologer, being
an astrologer, told her how a prince charming would come and make her happy. He
also said that a foreign trip was on cards for her and it was up to her to take
it or not. Anju was on cloud nine, if she could go she can solve all her
family’s problems. She has seen how Rathi madam’s living changed after her son went
to America. When an opportunity comes I
should be ready she said to herself. She made a list of things she would need
for the travel, she already knew how to get the first thing it was easy. Next
day she asked Rathi, if she can get the old worn out trolley back that anna had
brought back from America. Anju finally got it, and took it to her home. Then the
long wait for the opportunity, began!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;">It did come one
day, after months or may be years, she didn’t count. Her dad came running into
the house and said Muniappa was enrolling people to work in a sheikh's house in
Dubai. Anju couldn't believe her ears and rushed to Muni with whom her appa,
negotiated commercials, but she was too excited to notice. A deal was stuck
& the day of departure arrived. Anju boarded the bus with others; with less
luggage and a huge baggage. As soon as the bus started, Muni made a call and
informed someone that he has sent the next batch and asked him to snatch the
passports as soon as they arrive, as he handed over a wad of notes to Anju’s
father.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com0Bangalore, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.59456269999998312.4764182 76.949115699999979 13.4667792 78.240009699999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-6020752965522324672014-06-17T04:06:00.002-07:002014-06-17T04:06:38.089-07:00The Dream<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Something is pulling my soul from me<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Like how my amma pulls a small ball of
dough from a bigger one,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Like how the earth was pulled from the sun,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Or the moon was pulled from the earth.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Every night, the sky searches for me, to whisper
a thrilling plan<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>If only, I come out of my house.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Millions of rain drops wait to fall on my
cheeks,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>If only, I peep out of my umbrella.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Thousand blades of grass wait to kiss my
feet<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>If only, I step out of my shoes.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The paper boats I made and let sail as a
child,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Have reached the streams of my future and are
waiting for me to board.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I will cross the seven seas and conquer
lands beyond,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>If only, I Wake up.</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com0Bangalore, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.59456269999998312.4764182 76.949115699999979 13.4667792 78.240009699999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-70294486043061288072013-06-03T08:12:00.001-07:002013-06-04T07:06:06.612-07:00Bubble wrap dreams!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com0Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13.060422 80.2495830000000312.565435500000001 79.604136000000025 13.5554085 80.895030000000034tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-74233341987124969182013-01-26T23:40:00.000-08:002013-01-26T23:40:25.514-08:00The drunkard’s babel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Don’t call me a drunkard; I drink to be honest<o:p></o:p></div>
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The world kills the candid men; you either lie or die<o:p></o:p></div>
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Spirits make us blurt out the harshest of the bitter truths<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hence listen, sober fools<o:p></o:p></div>
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Often the protagonist and the hero of a tale are different<o:p></o:p></div>
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The protagonist is destined to be, but to be a hero is a
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The protagonist was because the heroes rose<o:p></o:p></div>
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No one knows which is inherent and which you absorbed over
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They now spread rigor mortis slowly into inspiration<o:p></o:p></div>
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Should I fight or should I love the death of the spirit<o:p></o:p></div>
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The answer glows as the warmth spreads<o:p></o:p></div>
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Leave the coils and be a free soul eternally <o:p></o:p></div>
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And hence I drink and strive to peel off the layers to
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Don’t call me drunkard; I drink to understand humanity<o:p></o:p></div>
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Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com3Dubai - United Arab Emirates25.271139 55.30748500000004224.350731500000002 54.01659150000004 26.1915465 56.598378500000045tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-88913752732651602322012-09-30T12:23:00.001-07:002012-10-01T09:02:12.412-07:00Last Drop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It is overcast but it would never rain like the trepidation will go unspoken<br />
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Pieces of broken glass stick together like in one of those unbreakable glasses<br />
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I grind my teeth and try to scatter them but come back with bruised fingers<br />
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Its always about others.... or for them, themselves <br />
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The best words are never said, they are the worst too<br />
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I walked miles only to discover that it was a circular path<br />
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Living in desolation would at least keep me grounded<br />
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The last drop to fill the cup shall never fall<br />
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what difference does nudity make when no one is around!</div>
Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-56742355726545746492012-08-22T00:29:00.000-07:002012-08-22T00:42:37.781-07:00Madras through the Six Senses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-20902932421149382802012-08-03T13:28:00.001-07:002012-08-03T13:50:20.423-07:00Gandhian Concept of Democracy in Power Distribution<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">The largest black out in human history, which India faced shall remain the largest for quite some time to come as it is quite impossible to replicate the same anywhere else, unless China also fails in an equal miserable way (the chances of which aren’t remote as China’s demand for power is also more that its capacity to generate). </span><span style="font-size: small;">This blackout had left millions stranded in the dark for a long time, there were miner trapped, hospitals disabled. Those who could afford ran their back up systems and could maintain the status quo but what about those who are dependent solely on the power supplied by the government? They had no choice but to suffer silently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In a typical reactive mode our government is now talking of reforms in the power sector. But one needs to ask what kind of reforms? Privatization? Even if the UPA government gathers enough courage to usher in such changes, at best it would benefit a few large corporates who will walk away filling their coffers at the cost of the common man. Do we have an alternative one may ask? This is where we can think of replicating what Mahatma said about Democracy, in power sector.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">According to Gandhiji, True Democracy is devolution of power to the grass root levels. He envisaged a society/nation in which the government (if at all it exists) would play only a regulatory role. The true power shall be with the people in the form of gram panchayats and equivalent local bodies. This also applies to the power sector where we can make the generation and distribution of power localized, whereby small units of power generation would meet the demands of the surrounding regions making them self sufficient. These units may be connected by a grid but they would also be able to function independently in case the grid fails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">One need not be an expert in Power Generation & Distribution to see the advantages of such a system, some of which are listed below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">1)</span> <span style="font-size: small;">A large scale black out would not occur as such a grid of localized, independent functional units would reduce the dependence on large units located at a distant location. Hence if a fault occurs that region may go offline there by saving other regions, in fact if the other units have more capacity they may pitch in if they can. This is not a new concept but just breaking down of the existing gargantuan power generators into smaller ones. The ancient wisdom of not placing all our eggs in one basket!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">2) This logically takes us to the next advantage which is eliminating the need for huge generating centres like Nuclear Power Plants, Thermal Power Plants and Hydro Electric Power Generation Systems. All these huge systems are ecologically damaging and we have no choice to carry on with them, unless we decide to change. In the current scheme of things it would only make sense to build more of these at the cost of our own lives, but in a better changed scenarios these might seem like huge toxin spewing monsters which are a result of our earlier mistakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">3) Such a system would also reduce the need to transmit power over long distances. On an average we lose about 32% of our power due to transmission losses. An unconditioned mind, like that of a child would wonder at the our stupidity of not trying to find out a way that is more efficient, but we have accepted the faulty system and we keep burdening it more. This would lead to better utilization of the infrastructure and also save cost – not to mention the uses that 32% of generated power can be put to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">4) To add to these smaller project would need lesser setting up costs and hence they can break even soon. This might encourage a lot of people to invest!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">As Swamy Vivekananda said ‘An ounce of practice is better than tons of tall talks’ so we need to think if such a change is feasible? The answer is Yes. Lot of small, ecologically safe, non-conventional power generation projects can transform the scenario. Instead of investing Billions in one huge project in one place, can’t we invest thousands in thousands of villages to establish, Gobar Gas Plants, Solar Plants, Windmills etc.? The private sector would also actively participate if the government encourages it with proper subsidies and incentives. After all they can make money by selling the power. We can explore Tidal Energy after all we have such a long coastline! By taking a small step at a time, if all the stake holders work together we may bring a transformation to the way we generate and distribute power and we would also light up every village in out nation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">At the risk of sounding a libertarian socialist let the POWER be with the PEOPLE.</span></div>
</div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-31851044815198306152012-07-25T06:20:00.002-07:002012-07-25T06:20:48.947-07:00This is where the mankind will return to....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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over penury and prejudice<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">To tide over
oppression and depression</span></span></i><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beaming
smiles, Radiant faces<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thoughtful
eyes and able bodies<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unbreakable
spirit to keep fighting<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
internal and external enemies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">One finds
all of these here – Africa,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is
where the mankind came from<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">And this is
where the mankind will return to. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
</div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-5313509541035596122012-07-22T08:43:00.002-07:002012-07-22T08:46:13.527-07:00I hate the Twilight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The tantalizing purposelessness </span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The guilt inducing vacuum</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Sound of piercing chats, confusing
piety</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Desperate Calling out to a
misunderstood deity </span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Purple pink sky </span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The golden
yellow lights of bulbs</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Tug of war between elevation and
elation</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Closure of one more episode of
countless lives</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Fear of safe return</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">And anxiety like that of roosting
birds</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Forewarning of the darkness to come</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Aching longing for the distant joy</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Vacillating loyalties</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Rising royalties for the people who
tread the uncharted</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Neither the light to understand nor
the darkness to hide, my sins</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">I hate the twilight, </span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">whenever I get the time to think</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">whenever I get the liberty to be
myself</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">I hate the twilight.</span></i></span></div>
</div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-20627953212429303832012-04-27T09:24:00.000-07:002012-04-27T09:24:15.464-07:00Lost voice in the wilderness!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">When I
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">like a
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">I try to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Alas, that
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Those
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Or have
I become a lost voice in the wilderness already?</span></div>
</div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-69141336694038664242012-04-24T04:38:00.000-07:002012-04-24T04:38:33.392-07:00Can you please state, why the state?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“This cannot be your birthday treat! The meal cost us only 94 Dirhams!” We exclaimed dismayed by the fact that our friend’s birthday treat did not cost him more, even after having a sumptuous three course meal in the famed Jumierah Beach Walk. Just then a bus full of laborers went past us. No one noticed. Well, why would anyone pay attention to a bus that transports people from their camps to place of work (which is a construction site of a big hotel) when you have a parade of BMW, Audi and Ferraris going by? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The bus came to a halt just near our table (we were dining outside) and I got a glimpse of people inside. Nothing spectacular, no romanticizing of poverty here, it was a bus full of hardworking, underpaid men. But what disrupted the magnetic field of affluence that prevailed was not their presence but the millions of questions their eyes threw astray while they gawked at the well attired men, those dainty ladies and those spectacular structures which their brethren built and which they never will get to enter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Though we say so much about <i>bahujan hitai bahujai sukhai</i>, let us stop the political rhetoric and lay down certain facts clear. Poverty has to exist in one form or another. It is a macroeconomic truth that prosperity shall be only when poverty is. The world as we have built today will keep running only as long as there is inequality, the moment equality is established, the commerce and business, the trade and activity shall cease. So will growth and prosperity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">George Orwell has illustrated in his 1984 the same fact so vividly. There have always been throughout human history and shall always be three classes, the elite, the middle class and the proletariat. All the revolutions of the masses succeeded in replacing the elite with a new group from the middle, which then promptly restructured the set up into three classes again. That’s what the communists, the socialists, the democrats have done in the name of establishing equality – they have aped the autocrats in their own way. The power, wealth, authority shall lie in the hands of the (s)elected few. This pattern repeats in a micro & macro cosmic way. The world as we have built it now can never become equal, as we have built it on people’s inabilities not on their abilities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So coming back to our laborer friends in the bus, are they condemned to the buses, camps & construction sites? The answer is yes, as per our current social set up! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we have a government (all countries included) which lays down guidelines to maintain the status quo, what else can we expect. The communists say that everything belongs to everyone and hence the state owns everything and a few people in power end up enjoying it. The capitalists say that each has to earn as per his ability and make no ado about people amassing wealth, in fact it goes a step further by bailing out corporate (which had taken risks ruthlessly and behaved irresponsibly) with the money of the public. Fundamentally these socioeconomic systems are the same, an ideal communistic society where each produces to his ability and consumes as per his need will be perfectly capitalistic! Drill down deeper and it shall make sense. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One may say that we have to climb up on the shoulders of our comrades to reach the heights and it is our duty to bear the weight, like what we do on a <i>Janmashtami</i> Human Tower (to break the <i>dahi handi – uriyadi</i> in tamil) – but people who are little bright can realize that in reality the person who climbs, stays there! We the bearers keep bearing! Ridiculous is it not? But this model prospers because we have a strong state backing which has a strong commercial backing. So do away with the state, let anarchy set in and equality shall find its way through. In fact I wonder if we need equality at all! All we need is a fair way of establishing inequality, a set up which is fluid enough to let people rise like molecules that are heated up. The cooler one will go down and once they get heated up they rise again, eventually spreading warmth all over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we see sense in not letting other determine what we (as an individual) do, we think that it is essential that someone dictate what the society should do! Why do we lack the fundamental belief that we as a group can govern ourselves without a structure, hierarchy or a leader? This, I presume is what Gandhi would have had in his mind when he advocated direct democracy for India. Every village for its own self - well he knew that <i>Ram Rajya</i> was not possible without <i>Gram Rajya</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Think if we had a say in what our society did:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Would our land be given away to huge mining corporations? </span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Would we let grains rot in one end and people starve at the other end of the same supply chain?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Would we buy soft drinks worth 10 Paise for 10 Rupees?</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Would we buy bottled water and not demand that our water be managed well and be given free?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Would we let car loans be cheaper than education loans?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The problems are not just Indian; I quote Indian examples as charity begins at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When Anna Hazare says ‘as a civilian he is above the parliament’, he is right! We are all, but unless we the people awaken we will just keep changing the elite group with another one and forget that we are it. <b><i>Tat Tvamasi</i>.</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As early men we were stateless and were able to establish civilizations and inventions that defined evolution. The day we established the state, we have curtailed evolution – all the degradation (of natural resources, environment) stands as living proofs. <b>I</b> <b>am not blaming the state for this as this is the result of our inability to stop when these happened</b>. Humanity was once ruled by priests and then came the kings, now it’s the turn of the businessmen tomorrow it shall be the proletariat. But unless we shun elitism and do away with the inequality that we have carefully built and nourished, we shall never be any different. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let us remain hopeful, after all hope did not come out of Pandora’s Box without a purpose! </span></div>
</div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com2Dubai - United Arab Emirates25.2644444 55.311666723.410508399999998 52.729879700000005 27.1183804 57.8934537tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-12872524177087193382012-04-20T03:34:00.000-07:002012-04-20T03:34:44.445-07:00Tamaso ma jyotirga maya!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Walk slowly but steadily,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">there is this light to guide you.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Transcend, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from illusion to truth</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from darkness to light</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">realise you are already immortal! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Transition is constant, we are changing ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Determine the direction by looking at this soothing light</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">it will lead you, me, us</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from lower to higher levels of consciousness</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from turbulence to benevolence</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from disturbance to peace</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from experimental to supra mental!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The light glows everywhere within the best and worst of men.</span><br />
<br /></div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-15944466860976665052012-02-20T08:34:00.001-08:002012-02-24T10:35:38.373-08:00When will the mothership come?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE0Mm4wGgNlYAmlfZQgqHJodGHbZThhW5PypQxY7b-115kgVbT9hBIo_tvzZ5N0vP72-OX8a8ZpwOxo3waAngGlvtjWc4sQ9bUpPTMZ_472URRaLgtrqiaArH83T-No69L_JezfbYQ8R8I/s1600/Indigo+Sun.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE0Mm4wGgNlYAmlfZQgqHJodGHbZThhW5PypQxY7b-115kgVbT9hBIo_tvzZ5N0vP72-OX8a8ZpwOxo3waAngGlvtjWc4sQ9bUpPTMZ_472URRaLgtrqiaArH83T-No69L_JezfbYQ8R8I/s400/Indigo+Sun.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">Hear all! No not all, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">only those who can see things before they happen,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">only those whose hearts, souls and minds are open.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">Those of us who don't see numbers but value,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">those of us who talk with your inner you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">Hear all indigo spirits,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">If you feel your life is a Topsy-turvy Déjà Vu </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">If you feel that you are Winnie the pooh</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">If you speak fluently an unknown tongue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">If you seem to grow not old but young</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">Hear those who yearn,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">To return to the warmth of the mother ship</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">to take the final mission completion trip.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">Those who search everywhere for a sign,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">did you forget that the stars are ever benign?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">Soon Jupiter & Venus shall shine above the horizon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">Mercury will join the celestial procession.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">Then the pathway to heaven will be thrown open </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Gabriola; font-size: 18pt;">leading us to the land of twinkling purple sun.</span><br />
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</div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-67761343415682163382012-02-04T23:16:00.000-08:002012-02-05T00:38:55.403-08:00The Aroma of the Eclectic Soup<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisz32aQUtc9Xz6B6SFj3SUL4kDF_biERPzQpUIPtcTJ0JiT13ksOaPS4xE809r9PqfLvH-QzfTzl5Zgpg4I0nhHfoAy8qQyzXniWBGsYF1HYTtvMcSQ-T86RSyyDB_ft-BSrDPrQr1Cqzd/s1600/Faith.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224px" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisz32aQUtc9Xz6B6SFj3SUL4kDF_biERPzQpUIPtcTJ0JiT13ksOaPS4xE809r9PqfLvH-QzfTzl5Zgpg4I0nhHfoAy8qQyzXniWBGsYF1HYTtvMcSQ-T86RSyyDB_ft-BSrDPrQr1Cqzd/s320/Faith.bmp" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">For the past few days a soup has been simmering inside my mind, an eclectic mixture of Objectivism, Laissez Faire Capitalism and Libertarian Socialism. No to mention the anarchist inclinations that makes me take an anti establishment stand. The aroma that arose from that pot was both tantalizing and invigorating. It led to one of those phases in life when one questions everything that is internal, values, attitude, ethics, philosophy and Faith. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">But, can faith be questioned? Is it not placed on the pedestal of untouchable sanctity? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answer that emerged after a prolonged strife is that yes for the former and no for the later. Whoever says that faith is unquestionable is wrong, no two ways about it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faith has to be questioned time and again. It is only after going through the furnace of questions do beliefs transform into faith and that why, beliefs can be superstitious but faith never. The more we doubt and interrogate the more pristine it becomes. Actually is the same spirit of questioning hailed by the Upanishads which say never accept anything without questioning.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">If our entire value system and hence our outlook is a manifestation of faith can we keep rattling the foundation by constant cross examination, will it not create instability? No, again. A successful entity (being or organization, anything that is capable of interaction) should be dynamic and agile. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agility is survival. So the more you keep your foundations updated the more free you become. Rigidity can indicate only one thing, an imminent rigor mortis. In fact human evolution, which beyond doubts is much more than physiological, can be summed up as below according to me:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">We believed -> We trusted -> We began to have faith</span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Now, one should not give in to the misconception of seeing faith and religion interchangeably. Here faith is not treated as a religion but it deals with faith as ability, faith as a virtue of human mind, as an infallible weapon in the evolutionary arms race acquired and nurtured by generations of contemplation. Again at this juncture we have to clarify that faith is not hope. Hope is pinning up expectations of something positive. But faith is being positive about an outcome or the lack of it, which could be positive or negative or neutral. It is that conviction which rejects or accepts things with absolute surety. It is that current that has shattered, rebuilt, stripped and dressed up humanity through the ages.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like all universal truths the crescendo of this stream of thought arrived at an unexpected moment in the temple of Dubai amidst subdued exuberance. A dull blow from a conch shell and hundreds of people clapping in a small, cramped place of worship; conveyed to me, how people refuse to let go of what that they have chosen to accept. They brave, they fight, they submit, they lay dormant like a virus for eons waiting for an opportune moment to resurface. That’s when I realized that we are not faithful because of religion but on the contrary religions exist because we are capable of faith. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div></div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com2Dubai - United Arab Emirates25.2644444 55.31166669999993224.9799129 54.977813199999929 25.5489759 55.645520199999936tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-32529369616486325622011-12-31T00:55:00.001-08:002011-12-31T00:55:34.578-08:00The Rainy Window of our childhood…..<p> </p> <p>Waiting for the summer rains,<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuCerXWB5Yg2uzS6I4E6fnK0GX37kNXtSjYDEaf9yEn4nXrBLZ4i6sdQriRIbDOvc1qBKfZnDpJymSW8QNhWsNgw3_TaefXN7wMYtFQLoHDJEJI-9qZhQbVlzFw_Df7aaGgC8nckAsZjPi/s1600-h/Rainy-Window32.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Rainy Window" border="0" alt="Rainy Window" align="right" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ2fgi2nZ9JtCrzCe0dyJoPgaNU9GqihzWY4NWP0Ftcr428M_jnMOpmuB3UPE39iZTBSgSKtjnLHEBaR1P9EIx0_pHWwxR65105QZcMgkTKBkDN95eLsovbynUeavDOVJMNN6oZFT_noEM/?imgmax=800" width="263" height="228"></a></p> <p>unaware that it would never come.</p> <p>Spinning out thousand tales</p> <p>not knowing where they came from.</p> <p> </p> <p>Fighting over a packet of maggie</p> <p>or nibbling half a 5 star for hours</p> <p>nothing was exclusively yours or mine</p> <p>the little we had was always ours.</p> <p> </p> <p>Choosing a tinkle that has to be read now</p> <p>the happiness of having saved rupees ten</p> <p>in the old plastic dabba with a hole</p> <p>life was pure, pristine and simple then.</p> <p> </p> <p>Come rains off we went to watch with glee</p> <p>and it was best viewed from the hall.</p> <p>who would sit which side of Johari’s window</p> <p>who gets to see the way the rains fall.</p> <p> </p> <p>Both of us perched on its narrow sill, </p> <p>though unfathomable we did it, but how?</p> <p>Have we out grown it or has the world, </p> <p>Pinky, become too small for our love.</p> Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-39921941011328130042011-12-13T03:21:00.000-08:002011-12-28T05:10:02.183-08:00The Bearded Uncle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Take off your ear studs</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">And start shaving daily.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Keep your eyebrows knotted</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">And stop moving gaily.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Can you see in black & white?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Can you worship your chores?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Do you keep singing always?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It’s rude to knock on the doors.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">A lieutenant cannot speak</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">He should be all eyes and ears.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Wait till you get three stars</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">So silence for three years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Understand if I yell at you </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">it’s only a correction,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Ah did I tell you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">you need to change your vision.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Now the silly child within asks,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"> ‘Where is the bearded uncle,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Who used to dance like possessed,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">And sing a song at will?’</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-86622992955663151572011-11-20T10:34:00.001-08:002011-11-20T10:57:30.949-08:00Metamorphosis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 18pt;">A pupa breaks
its cocoon to emerge as a colourful flutter by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 18pt;">and the fog
settles down as a thousand diamond dew drops.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 18pt;">The water
buffalo emerges from the swamp </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 18pt;">with its back
caked with the mud of past</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 18pt;">and the
drizzle caresses it to a sparkling grey.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 18pt;">Every time you
laugh, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 18pt;">One more layer
of my heart unfurls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 18pt;">I no longer
sleep like a foetus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 18pt;">I sleep with my
arms wide open</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 18pt;">waiting for
you to run into my embrace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 18pt;">Metamorphosis
into an open, infinite expanse of limitless love.</span></div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-33380656430886085362011-10-07T23:39:00.001-07:002011-10-07T23:44:46.244-07:00Swansong<p> </p> <p><font size="3">Time flies faster than our thoughts</font></p> <p><font size="3">if it is deemed close to our hearts.</font></p> <p><font size="3">I started this course, unsure, not before long</font></p> <p><font size="3">but here I am, already with my swansong.</font></p> <p> </p> <p><font size="3">The RD Chants, the occasional rants</font></p> <p><font size="3">the endless nights, the senseless fights</font></p> <p><font size="3"><font size="3">the presentations, the explorations</font></font></p> <p><font size="3">the tricky assignments, the disillusionments </font></p> <p><font size="3"></font> </p> <p><font size="3">Trickled through our hands, these precious moments</font></p> <p><font size="3">we found a strand worth holding in endless torrents </font></p> <p><font size="3">slowly our ‘When will this get over yaar’</font></p> <p><font size="3">changed to ‘why is this getting over yaar’</font></p> <p><font size="3"></font> </p> <p><font size="3">However, sunset is just a reminder of upcoming dawn</font></p> <p><font size="3">sleeping club will still be flooded with many a yawn</font></p> <p><font size="3">for friends like us, eternal and true</font></p> <p><font size="3">Good Byes only mean God bless you</font></p> <p><font size="3"></font> </p> <p><font size="3">This one year, together we swivelled and whirled </font></p> <p><font size="3">in this MBA, undoubtedly the best in the world</font></p> <p><font size="3">For us MBA is not Masters of Business Administration</font></p> <p><font size="3">but it is our ‘Most Blessed Association’</font></p> <p><font size="3"></font></p> Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-91852710787952764802011-09-09T23:44:00.001-07:002011-09-11T09:52:59.139-07:00Rains are more beautiful in my home town<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Rains are
more beautiful in my home town.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">the
anticipation and wait </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">make
it sweeter.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Over there
it is relief, it is change</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">It is a new
beginning.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">It is the
end of summer that saps</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">energy and
life out of us.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">The showers
in wilderness</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Downpours in
concrete jungles</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Mild
drizzle in the mountains</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Or lazy
rain of the countryside</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">nothing of these are as spectacular as the rains</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">that flood
my city and make our lives tough.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Yes, the
rains are more beautiful in my home town,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Because when the rain comes down </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">it brings memories of running to get wet </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">with a blue plastic bag on our heads.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">and because along
with the scent my soil</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Rises my
past</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">When I believed
that I can make my paper boats </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Sail to the
sea</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">And across to foreign shores.</span></span></div>
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Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-46430238364601465052011-09-09T04:22:00.000-07:002011-09-09T04:22:47.038-07:00Frozen Souls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">If all world is a stage</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">we started acting </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">at a very early age.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">only that somewhere down the line</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">we forgot to stop.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">In this jungle of </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">tropical insects</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">hungry for food,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">In this garden</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">where bees are eager</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">to suck or to sting</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">We too are flowers</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">our petals shrivelled</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and souls frozen.</span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Is 65 years Old? Yes, in the case of mortals.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">But for the timeless Indian spirit that transcends past, present and future,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">65 years is a mere instance but a significant instance at that. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Where there has been turbulence and malevolence</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Where there has been revolution and evolution</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Where there have been fights for blood and bread.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Are we a booming economy or an incomprehensible Dichotomy?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">The answer is as confusing as the famous Indian nod.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">We are brave, we are generous</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">We have come so far in a journey which is onerous. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">We have grown and we have won.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Progress, prosperity and charity</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">But did anyone say clarity?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">We have cultivated breeds of politicians without strains of leadership.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Amidst these chaos</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">My mother stands tall as ever, inspiring the world in her infinite wisdom</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Of harmonizing contradictions, rising despite odds,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">and drawing billions towards her for solace of the motherhood.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Incredible India indeed.</span></span></div></div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-31035547391335767302011-08-06T11:08:00.000-07:002011-08-07T00:13:14.260-07:00I%$&A@$(F&%D**L<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">I wake up, besides you </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Bleary eyed, to the smell of distant freshness</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Sunshine and drops of honey</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Sticky, viscous</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">The hangover of happiness</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Rain washed away the dirty smudges</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Outside the eternal battle of cutlery</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Hot, breakfast</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Amma, can I have the cake and eat it too?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Mom said yes!!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Thunder and lightning</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Change of scene</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Oh no not again.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">It’s a dream</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">And my heart touches the diaphragm. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-66984084999484702332011-08-03T10:46:00.000-07:002011-08-03T23:23:49.786-07:00Under the Rainy Sky<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: small;">With every passing day,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I unwind in your warm breath,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">My hands become more intertwined with yours,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I lose myself deeper into the labyrinth of your heart.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">With every passing day,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The winds of life erode the stone wall of will,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I realise that you are my life source,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I am drawn closer to the light of your pristine innocence.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">With every passing day,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I let my nights dawn for your unborn thoughts</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And my days await the nightfall to see the million stars -</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">the dreams which were born by the union of our hopes.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">With every passing day,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I resonate more with your silence,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I tune into your speech , I decipher your signs</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Yet I discover more mysteries, unfathomable.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But with every passing day,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Your image is getting blurred; your voice is getting muffled</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">As the cold tentacles of time </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">drag me away into unknown parts of the ether.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Oh my life,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">When will you let me live?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Don’t you see that I am crying under the rainy sky?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Alone?</span><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">The fall that churns your stomach keeps from tumbling down.</span></span></div><div> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Knowing is the first step towards ignorance</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">And ignorance first step towards knowledge.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Dattatreya </span></i><span lang="EN-US">accepted everyone possible as guru,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Is it because he was an <i>Avadhuta</i>?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Or did he become that because he learned from all?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Do you how to eat multiple helpings of <i>Akara Vadisal</i>?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Lick the pickle between multiple helpings of sweet.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;">If everybody loves you, something is wrong. </span></div><div style="text-align: right;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;">Find one enemy to keep you alert Paulo Coelho Tweets!</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;">Atishoo atishoo may we all fall down.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div></div>Madan Panathulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968117757247328220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713250855569842501.post-64726807148285757572011-07-09T09:08:00.000-07:002011-07-14T22:58:15.991-07:00Last Train to the Past<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Tomorrow I should organise my thoughts. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One box for the transience </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">and one for all that related to conscience </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One for her and one for her and one for her! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One for it.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Infinite such tomorrows have gone by </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">and by all probability go by.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Yet tomorrow might be the day;</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">when dark things might stop crawling into my bed sheets</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">when migraines of yore might be washed ashore never to come again.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Don’t wake me up rudely, I hate when people startle me</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And you friendly ghost don’t you dare boo at me.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">For all who live inside the walls of my room</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> I have stopped talking to you.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Strangers in my dream god bless you, you may go.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I run towards sleep the only saviour </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">When the sticky violet hands of the night chase </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">to tear open my heart to reveal the dawn with streaks of blood.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Clueless I ask the stranger on the side</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Mister, when does the last train to the past leave?’’</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I have some unfinished business there.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />
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