The Foolish King - NaPoWriMo Day 6

Writing a limerick again. It is self exploratory. 

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The foolish king enjoyed absolute sovereignty, 

He ruled over his foolish subjects by decree. 

When there was a famine. 

He built a shrine to please the divine. 

No one survived to obey the decree. 

The Meme Girl - NaPoWriMo Day 5

Here is a Limerick. It's a five line humorous poem following the rhyme scheme aabba. My limerick is a comment on the young generation getting their news through memes. 

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The Meme girl

The Meme girl was a millennial  who shared memes on everything, everyday. 

Once she was very quiet, very out of her way. 

I asked her views,. 

On the recent news. 

'' Sorry, '' she said, '' I didn't check memes today. '' 

Aiyanna (Mirror) - NaPoWriMo Day 4

Aaj hindi mein likhe hain. Prompt tha Aiyanna.

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Aiyanna

Wo aiyanne ke aagey aksar, 

Din ko raat karti mai. 

Mai puchta jo wjah, 

Mujh par hi bigadti thi. 

''Aiyanna na ho gaya, 

Saut ho gaya mera. 

Mujhse zyada nihaarta hai

Chehra tera. '' 

'' Ab kya karu,'' 

 Wo bigde swar mein boli. 

''Sach bolta hai ye, 

Nahi khelta aakh micholi. 

Na zulfon ki safedi chipata hai, 

Na chehre ke daag chipata hai. 

Umr ka sahi hisaab rakhta hai, . 

Jo dekhta hai wahi bakta hai. 

Tumhari tarah nahi karta yeh

jhoot ki taskari

Nahi samajta mujhe koi hoor pari.''

Maine fataak se khol di

Aiyanne ki sacchayi, 

''Kitni bhi sateek ho, 

Dikhata hai ye mehaz parchayi. 

Parchaayi vastavik hai, 

Vastav hai meri nazar. 

Bhooj jaogi apne roop ka sach, 

Kuch lamhe in mein jhalak lo agar.''

Let go of any noise - NaPoWriMo Day 3

Noise in communication refers to all the barriers that come between the speaker and receiver. For a better society we need to let fo of those noises.

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Let go of any noise

Let go of any noise, 

That comes between us:

The misinformations,

The misunderstandings,

The biases we keep for each other,

The repressed anger.

The acquired bitterness 

 

Let go of any noise, 

That makes us less human,

Let us listen to each other's story,

Put on each other's shoes, 

Laugh with them, 

Weep with them, 

Understand them, 

Be them. 

Losing NaPoWriMo Day 2

Not every friendship and relationship is supposed to work out well. With that in mind, I penned this.

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Losing

I have lost people,

and not always to death. 

It's a slow, persistent ache,

It's like watching an apple rot, 

Or an iron rust:

Irreversible, inevitable 

The mind gives no reprieve:

It wields its own misery. 

It revisits the memory lane, 

When the apple was fresh, 

When the iron didn't rot. 

No explanation reasons, 

Where it went wrong. 

What changed? 

Who changed? 

No need to debate, 

Worthless questions. 

It's bound to be, 

Such a train is life. 

Passengers board, de-board, 

All stations offer, 

Unique, experience. 

Fake News, NaPoWriMo, Day 1

30 days. 30 poems is the target. This poem is inspired by the lowering standard of media and Donald Trump. :D

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Fake news 

What a welcome change,

This information age 

Ignorance will vaporize 

Awareness will rise. 

Guess what? 

Fake news. 

Those who hold the pen, 

Won't set narrative as back then.

Truth will be one and nude, 

No voices will be subdued. 

Guess what? 

Fake news. 

With advanced satellite, 

Everything will be reported live. 

No information will be concealed, 

All conspiracies will be revealed. 

Guess what? 

Fake news. 

In reality, we are less informed than before, 

Troubled sea is portrayed as a calm shore. 

Money controls everything, 

Ethics worth a shilling.

All the promises of free and fair information, 

Fake news. 

#MeToo

#MeToo

I do not understand why there are more jokes and memes in India's MeToo Movement  than sensitive discussions.

The movement has barely started and is receiving more criticism than support. The arguments put forward by critics are weak and baseless too. The two major arguments are:
1. Why the women are coming up with these confessions so many years later?
2. Why are they not going for it the legal way?

The answer to both is the same :because you ask questions like these. There was lack of social acceptance to these confessions yeaes ago (there is a lack of it even now). Just imagine those piercing eyes of the policemen as they would narrate their stories.
Also they need time to assess their emotions after experiencing inhuman behaviour like these.

Another thing I do not understand is why we pass our judgement on the genuineness of the cases depending on the person's body of work.
Why is it easier to believe that Sajid Khan was a perpitartor and not Nana Patekar? Yes, Nana Patekar is more senior, more respectable and a better artist, but is that all It takes? Charlie Chaplain was the greatest entertainer of all time and he indulged in sexual abuse and exploitation of girls many years his junior.
I am not saying Nana Patekar is guilty or Sajid Khan is not.
How would I know? It is not easy to prove anyone guilty or innocent in these cases anyway. What holds importance is that people come out and talk about it fearlessly.
Maybe it is not easy to pin down these influenfial celebrities but two things can be taken from them which they will cherish most :their professional life and their respect. And even if this does not happen, Atleast more women (potential victims) would be wary around Nana Patekar or Sajid Khan, if they are indeed guilty. Atleast they can be saved from the trauma.

Lastly I would say  that it is terribly wrong to criticisise a movement because some people are doing it wrong. No movement is perfect. Even the freedom movement had people who were opportunists and selfish, did we condemn the whole movement?