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Man still hopes to be
A rational animal.
Lucky women,
Poor Aristotle!
He couldn’t meet Galileo
Before the centre shifted.
His Holiness knew him,
But trusted Ptolemy.
The luckless animals
Knew their part in us;
The other, too irrational,
A stuff of common sense.
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Corona and the Varna
Refuse to rhyme well
Despite being viruses.
Race and Caste as well
Don’t join the chase
Despite having panthers.
Folks in weird shackles,
Princes ignore the Sastras
Despite Social Contracts.
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The winner,
The vanquished:
The Mahabharat.
Who’ll answer Yaksha’s
Questions, and bring back
The dead in ICUs?
Victory’s defeat:
Victor the hollow man,
A dog’s lonely friend.
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In the world
Black lives matter.
In India
Caste’s what matters.
It doesn’t matter:
Everyone’s Brahman,
Everything’s Maya,
The grand dispassion.
Look, the tolerant hate,
An unholy dharma
Decides We the people:
Why shouldn’t it matter?
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Democracy
Deserves better:
Respect for difference.
Citizens
Deserve better:
Leadership, not leaders.
The world
Deserves better:
Stateswomen, not salesmen.
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Nobody is great,
It’s just a moment,
At best, an event.
The great do inspire
Storytellers oblige
The conspiracy.
Buddha, didn’t he say
The world’s a big lie,
Never a Maya?
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Adults,
We’re the problem
The young
Need to solve.
We’re the lie
Beyond repair:
Don’t give up
Nor give in,
Just handover
Gracefully;
They need to
Takeover.
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Globalised and flattened,
The world looked very cool:
God’s own dear family!
Who messed up with the game,
And primed the virus?
Corona or the Pharma?
Right at the wrong time
Wrong at the right time–
How to right the time?
