What's in a name?
With the stage set for the February 15 Assembly polls in the Northeast, a surfeit of names crop up that extend from the ordinary to the bizarre. There are namesakes and names for names' sake.
Adolf Hitler, for once, is not a member of the German National Socialist Party. He is not a protagonist of Nazism either for anybody to be alarmed of but just the Congress(I) nominee for the Rangsakona (ST) seat in Meghalaya. Adolf Hitler R Marak is his full name.
The Great Dictator of the Third Reich is not the only fiend to contest in the ensuing elections in the state. The very name of a candidate for the Mendipather (ST) constituency would send a shiver down the spine of one too many. One was told that Mary Shelley's monster did destroy its creator. But Frankenstein is alive and kicking for he (Frankenstein W Momin) is the Congress(I) man out here.
The mills and our loss
A disaster becomes a farce when the underlying tragedy gets buried, for whatever be the reason. That is just what has happened with the Supreme Court order paving the way for more malls and luxury apartments in the congested metropolis of Mumbai that should translate into billions of rupees for mill owners.
It is not just the court ruling which will be environmentally calamitous for Mumbai. The real tragedy lies in the fact that all voices of reason have been drowned in the Babel of eulogies that have been flooding the newspapers and the news channels. Trust the media to slut themselves for the shortsighted interests of the real estate mafia.
| Title | Collection |
|---|---|
| Crashing through the gates of dawn | The Fire of Nothingness |
| Or else, I would never let you go | The Fire of Nothingness |
| Incomplete words | The Fire of Nothingness |
| Kill me if you can | The Fire of Nothingness |
| The light of nothingness | The Fire of Nothingness |
| Wrap-up | The Fire of Nothingness |
| Hit the fool’s eye | The Fire of Nothingness |
| The squalor is squalid | The Fire of Nothingness |
| Stranded in time, lost in space | The Fire of Nothingness |
| The surge, a fatality | The Fire of Nothingness |
| Die, you scum of the earth | Anger in Ashes |
| Salami revolution | Anger in Ashes |
| The fountainshame | Anger in Ashes |
| You deserve a boo | Anger in Ashes |
| Spinning a yarn | Anger in Ashes |
| They build asylums for us | Anger in Ashes |
| Obliterated words | Anger in Ashes |
| Some justification | Anger in Ashes |
| Status quo | Anger in Ashes |
| End: It has to be horrific | Anger in Ashes |
| Let them sleep | Accursed in Twilight |
| Scavengers must leave | Accursed in Twilight |
| A pre-empted epitaph of foeticide | Accursed in Twilight |
| Purge it in and out | Accursed in Twilight |
| An arrogant mind | Accursed in Twilight |
| Closed doors | Accursed in Twilight |
| Swan song | Accursed in Twilight |
| Ignominious epitaph | Accursed in Twilight |
| The talepiece | Accursed in Twilight |
| True story | Accursed in Twilight |
| Trample, crackle | Ready for Exile |
| A reverie, told | Ready for Exile |
| Their drought, my monsoon | Ready for Exile |
| Answers Lost in Questions | Ready for Exile |
| Outpouring of words, déjà vu of a downpour | Ready for Exile |
| Rains: Before, After | Make Believe Imagination |
| Interlude | Ready for Exile |
| A Poet's Defence of a Minstrel | Ready for Exile |
| The countdown | Ready for Exile |
| The leaf that got away | Make Believe Imagination |
| Catcher in the dry | Make Believe Imagination |
| A foresummer noon's lullaby | Make Believe Imagination |
| An Epitaph for a Friend | |
| Lust for love, the rape of the mind | Ready for Exile |
| When the stillness resonates | Ready for Exile |
| Even spirits must die | Make Believe Imagination |