Can I...

Can I sleep with your thoughts? Is that allowed?

Does this sound subtle or a little too loud?

If I ask you to share something, please don’t suggest that cliché lot

And let that be our food for thought
Cakes, coffees have been done too much

Share your thoughts… let that be the conversation’s crutch.

If I ask you to be the idea in my head

Will you charge me something?

I take this thought to my bed

And conclude its worth is more than a shilling.

Hallucinating while trying to fall asleep

I feign as if I want more hours to sleep

I make up conversations and quick replies

Intermingling truth and a whole lot of lies.

What’s troubling me is this question unanswered:

Can I sleep with your thoughts? Is that allowed?

Does this sound subtle or a little too loud?

Happy Holi :-)

Inebriated by the colours and the splash

Not the bhaang, but things apart

Waking up to a distant memory in a flash

The first half seems an event of the past.

You know you are technologically challenged when...

• Wi-fi, for you, is just something that rhymes with hi-fi
• 3G is a scam bigger than 2G
• You feel taglines like “Touch.Feel.Experience.” have a sexual undertone
• Your ringtone and every other alert tone is the default one
• You think that android is some hormone similar to thyroid. (In that case, you are even scientifically challenged)
• You feel that if “Jelly”, “bean”, “ice-cream” and “sandwich” are ever on your phone, you immediately need to wipe it or get it off.
• You think that ‘Cloud’ must be something related to skype. Sky-pe, the color blue, skype’s logo… looks similar, no?
• When you argue that bubble safari is a much better game than GTA Vice City
• When you don’t understand which message you sent and which one you received on Whatsapp
• LED, LCD means the same to you
• When Phablet means the latter part of tablet.. Like English Vinglish… it’s Tablet-Phablet…
• When most of your gadgets are on the Auto-mode

I’m sure there are many more things that still remain uncovered. Well, blame it on my limited knowledge, then. Feel free to add more! J

The Great Indian Reek-ing Tragedy!

So by defying his rule of proper form of any text, I shall begin my write-up by thanking Aristotle and acknowledging him first:

Thank you so much for inspiring me, Sir. Even if I don’t score a 20/25 for my soon-to-be-written answer, I am grateful to you, for I at least got some inspiration to write this post :)

This afternoon, while reading his notes, the analogy between Greek tragedy and Indian politics just struck me. Having read more than 2 plays that combine elements of Greek Tragedy (that’s still not close to my claim to fame), I got enough stuff to finally write something on politics that’d make sense… or nonsense… Either way, how does it matter?

• To start off, the too many characters, and inimitable ones at that, fits the mould of a complex Greek tragedy completely
• There are many flat characters, like those who keep mum, but are still given the priority like a “first citizen”; big-mouthed ones who know a lot of things already, keep mum when they should speak and speak when they should keep their fingers on their lips; and glorified bhaiyyas and Rajas, too… Itna laad kyun bhai?
• Chorus, in the form of arguments and many ministers saying many things, all at once. Aren’t we all witness to “Shaant ho jaiye”, “Baith jaiye” by our ever-so-patient Lok Sabha Speakers?
• The chorus at times alters themselves and become Praise Singers for members from their own party. Base flatterers practicing sycophancy… How many times have we seen that?
• Hamartia (Common tragic flaw) – Corruption and greed… Kya karen, control nahi hota!
• Some ministers with their shayaris intervening in between almost miss out on being the official musicians to this drama.  Bada sawaal – “Will the chorus come to their aid”?
• In the beginning, the stakes are high, but eventually it all fizzles out because of the characters’ tragic flaw.
• The ‘Dal-badlu-reversal’ syndrome when a minister changes party and suddenly he’s handed over a new script of dialogues. How tedious, no?
• And that moment of recognition or “Eureka”, when all their goodness goes for a toss. “Hum mantri hain, bhai? Apne aap ko kisi se kamm kyun haanke?”
• The huge production cost… ‘250 crore for A vacation!’

I definitely regard this haphazard state being as good as any tragedy. Given the current state of affairs, I’m guessing the chances of improvement are as much as scoring a 22/25 for a well-written, Literature answer… highly minute. For, the more they seek to do better, the more they reek to do the worse.

(PS: I initially thought of dropping names, but then I dropped the idea itself. Risk kyun le, bhai?)