get euphemistic about your own cowardice
to the omniscient inside feed many lies
make promises to self you know you can’t keep
it’s a quicksand and every second you are sinking deep

do it, for your equivocations have an expiry date
truth alone is eternal and the shortest route to fate.

t-mobile e-mails me my telephone bill..
buy an iPhone your programs profess at will
by your means i exchange a phone number
“vonage” the heartless advertisement murmurs

i “search” (not google) something on water problems
“incontinence cured” ad(non) sense..senses stem
my dad sends a mail..i reply to “appa” back home..
you equate that to “father”..and get messages from rome?

i’ve stopped solving crosswords for now i reverse engineer
recheck what i typed..that this new ad is here
then a mortal fear haunts.. i get gymnophobic
you watch me so long.. don’t you feel sick?

you wrote off debts that were never gonna be paid
took credit and were blamed for “loans waived”
then a nu(clear) treaty i could not understad
reservations ..my reservations you would not stand

GDP on paper.. you were talk of the town
what had you done..what credit did you own
soaring interest rates ..you could not contain
now falling currency..you are helpless and maim
terror attacks ..you did well with a sorry face
sorry..but inaction has lost its grace

election time again.. what change is in store
we’ve known you so long..you geriatrics bore
now you’ll show new faces and squander away millions
promise cycles, cellphones and colour televisions
mention temples and mosques and incite the ignorant
watch the communal riots and preach to be tolerant
then make it back to the stage in show time
take back 10 bucks per head for every single dime

and the way we are we will continue
new thugs perhaps but theft won’t be new
why the hell this drama? why this expensive democratic process?
please go on without elections.. we need no political recess

we will take care of the neighbors.atleast their problems will
as for world economy..its no man’s will
agriculture produce will still bank on rain
there will be a sreedharan for the metro train.

fuel prices will rise..we will reply with a greener car
for posterity we will try not leaving a carbon scar
but whatever it is..its we who will do
you are a different species we aren’t amongst you.

communications reduce to the tiny little “hand held”
“connecting people” distances hands held
we close doors..we keep “i” to oneself
we open a window.. so much about us knows that elf
who i talk to, who says what to me,what do i want to see
he eavesdrops and peeps at the pretext of information being free

friday arrives ..but no, there isn’t a “thank god”
if on monday there is a place to go..all gratitude is for lord.
strange times we are all living through..
was there worst..will there be better..i have no clue

what are they made up of,NOs for an answer i get
do questions fertilize them, more nays, nays beget.
they seem an echo then, of a shriek buried in grave
where were the ayes then, what were the answers you gave?
or was it silence then; not meaning the proverbial consent
my lack of action; is that what you resent?

strong medicine perhaps, but have my taste buds around
i would just close my eyes and take in, just gulp down.
why was i expecting,one inert placebo?
one sugarcoated “yes”..instead of the bitter “NO”.

the media alone is not the object of my wrath, the people who provided them the ingredients for the potpourri are pretty up my bad book as well. ATS, Mumbai Police, NSG, IB, Home Ministry, State Ministry we just had too many departments dealing with this and everyone of them wanted to catch a beam of limelight with their comments. there were varying statements about the origin of terrorists, the number of them, the armaments they used, the number of victims, the locations etc.

“reliable sources” is now a new cliche in my lexican. a convenient masquerade for an unverified piece of someone’s fantasies. the news channels are afraid that if they do not, someone else will use that piece of gossip to boost their TRP so all of them end up broadcasting a piece of unverified information . could someone sue them for the mis-information they spread?

then to my dismay they end up commending the terrorists. extremely fit, very well trained, ruthless, meticulously in planning, heavily armed, determined and dedicated.. this list of qualities would look good on a military résumé and even if true should not be used to describe those misanthropes. 

i find the modus operandi of the investigation flawed. one must avoid speculation when detailing public on such incandescent matters, either there should be one body heading the investigation or if its the synergic effort of the spectrum of bureaucracy they should have one common media spokesperson who would update the media.the public should be given an admissable ETA of the investigation report update and the spokesperson should hold a press conference on such date. each official must be sworn to secrecy.

the arrested terrorist’s statements are being taken as gospel truth and someone or the other seems to be coming running to the media after every sentence he blurts. the number of terrorists have a mode of 10,median of 12, an upper extreme of 26, they may or may not have local support (is there another possibility). the list of varying revelations have been endless.

India needs an equivalent of Guantanamo from which general public and media are quarantined, the entire investigation must be done from there. the culprits when caught must be made examples , an object of terror to anyone who imagines doing such an act . the human rights organisations if making noise must be silenced in that regard.

if there has been an internal support for these kind of activities we must digout the reasons. if the reasons have roots in past government(‘s) (in)action, visible steps must be made to correct them. if the reasons are religious we must even go to the extent of decalring india as athiest rather secular and it must be made clear to people that nothing on religious ground would be tolerated; if there economic incentives for such disloyalty; the treasonists must be treated at par with the terrorists. perhaps another time i would try going into what i think could be the incentive/trigger for disloyalty.