Honor Killing
...Is this an exception? Isn’t inter-caste marriage a taboo even today in the Indian sub-continent? Being born into two contradicting castes yet mad in love for each other, they knew their kith and kin ...
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Categories:
deccan, abuse, life,
Form: Haibun
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
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Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan
Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Br...
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Categories:
deccan, anti bullying, patriotic, political,
Form: Sonnet
Limerick: Once a President of Bolivia
...Limerick : Once a President of Bolivia
Once a President of Bolivia
Frothed oblanceolate green saliva
Must dream was Ashoka*
On Andes throne Inca
That’s how COCA-cola drug India.
*ASHOKA, b. circa 3...
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Categories:
deccan, devotion, religious, religious, drug,
Form: Limerick
Akbar, the Great 1542 - 1605
...Can a man – all alone - foist a god upon his fellows
Even if it’s only himself
And they his subjects
G.. is Akbar!
Does the muezzin from the minaret of Qoutoub-Minar
look up or
down to the illitera...
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Categories:
deccan, adventure, , atheist,
Form: Free verse
My City Hyderabad
...Haiku
…My City Hyderabad
Same stories in books
Same thoughts I read time again
Missing myself
Those old lanes
Those dim lit windows above
My city glows
Rickshaw-puller leads
My thou...
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Categories:
deccan, faith, holiday, nostalgia, places,
Form: Light Verse