The Chant

"What's the use of shouting some lines without knowing their meaning???
How's it different from hurling abuses in a foreign tongue???"
yelled the "progressive" father hearing Sanskrit Chants on TV.
The son replied,
"Cool down Dad. It's time for your BP tablet. What do you like? A dose of Phenoxybenzyl-Phentolamine or shit???"

The Dictator

They said he was the Emperor
and I, a meek pretender;
They said he was unbeatable
and I was just a muddy place's defender
who was bound to surrender;
Well, I said nothing
but did something.
Now, it's time to say who I really am and the world to listen!
I am Nadal, Rafael Nadal!

A Vision

"Her long blonde hair had been my distant dream.

Her milk-like complexion, my lifelong desire.

Her 10/10 smile, the hardest to copy.

Everything in hers was so enviable.

And, how happy I am now, to have made her realize it!"

Smiled the ghost of the once-blind girl's best friend!

The Birthday

A five pound gold Necklace from GRT,
two Samudhrika silk sarees from Pothys,
a 3D film with family and friends at Satyam,
a sumptuous banquet at the Taj,
a generous 2 Rs donation to a temple side beggar
and a bargain with the vegetable hawker to recover it
rounded off another satisfactory birthday for Mrs. Kumar.

The Refuge

The place stunk with stubs all around. The last user must have misused it, I thought. I wasn't there to use it properly either. I had to stay put though. Then, came a knock followed by that dreaded voice,

"Excuse me, ticket please!”.

Only then did I really feel the urge to use the toilet.

The Irony

Dressed up in the finest of robes, he was driven royally to the colony which gave him a rousing welcome. The people offered him multi-cuisine delicacies to eat, sang and danced day-night to entertain him and did everything possible to make him happy, and then,

dumped him into the deep blue sea!