manraman

Unknown

2010-03-24T13:53:00.000+04:00

It's still unknown why a lot of people commit suicide

Like it's still unknown why a lot of people cling to life.

Wrong Enemies

2010-03-24T13:48:00.001+04:00

To choose a wrong enemy is more dangerous than to choose a wrong friend.

Half-souls and Assholes

2010-02-11T09:35:00.000+04:00

We assholes,

Send our children's halfsouls

Down the dirtiest drain

When we masturbate.

Sunlight, on Rainbow

2009-04-16T12:28:00.002+04:00

Who named it her bow?
It’s my autobiography, not hers.

She just fell down, that’s all.

It’s my story – by becoming thinner than a silk thread and finer than dust, I take utmost care lest even a drop of her gets hurt – passing through her.

What’s more, even she herself is my autobiography.
From dawn to dusk I toil on the fields of sea,
Plough, sow seeds and water with sweat and finally reap the grains of rain.

And at nights, while lying down awaiting sleep,
Just for fun I let the memory of the day fall on that piece of broken mirror.
Oh, sick and boring romantics, you call it moonlight.

You always stumble upon names.
Look at the number of autobiographies I write.
None of them carry my name.
Going only by names, what all you read?
What all you learn?

Four Banana Skins

2009-04-14T17:52:00.001+04:00

1.

Male-halves,
As if love of their life called for them from the other shore,
Jumped into the river,
For a moment,
To bang their heads on the rubber wall of the dam
To drift afloat as dead bodies.
For a moment.

2.

Eggs put to boil,
For a moment,
Took the first waves of the warming up water
As the love of their mother’s abdomen.
For a moment.

3.

Sprouted beans,
Before falling into the frying pan,
For a moment,
Dreamt of climbing up,
Reaching out green tentacles.
For a moment.

4.

And me,
While walking, thinking God gave bananas
Their three-zipped skin
For us to eat them neatly without
Smearing dirt from our hands,
For a moment,
Put a foot on a banana skin somebody thrown
And ah!

Isn't it the Death of Capitalism?

2009-04-02T16:10:00.003+04:00

Long & Short of It

2009-03-19T11:27:00.002+04:00

Most of the short-term solutions become long-term problems.

Plasma, Where are You?

2008-08-24T16:23:00.002+04:00

love is like water, is tasteless but indispensable.
hatred is steam, will burn to kill.
yes, you guessed, indifference is ice, you can break your head, no feelings.
one and the same thing will seem to be three different things - water,
steam and ice. love, hatred and indifference.
when you break the ice of indifference, you get love. when you boil
love, you brew hatred. when you are bored of love, you become
indifferent.

they measure heat and cold of water, steam and ice with the same unit.
you can go ahead and measre love, hatred and indifference with the same unit.
how simpler than this does nature express illusion?

An Ode to the Urban Thirst

2008-08-24T16:19:00.003+04:00

May the water in the river and the pipes that bring it be pure,

But if the overhead tank atop our houses where we bear the urban nights is impure,

Oh burning thirst, I wish if you fell down and died in this searing heat, along with me

An Ode to the Politics of Hair

2008-08-24T16:16:00.001+04:00

It's alright when you sit on the head, in group.

But never fall down in a curry, alone.

Boom'erangs'

2008-06-21T15:20:00.003+04:00

Every boom has an erang to follow.

Don't forget, when you make hill out of a pit,
You make two pits somwhere.
When you fill a gutter to build a wall,
You dig two new gutters.

Measuring Hatred and other Loves

2008-05-08T07:41:00.002+04:00

They measure heat and cold by the same unit. Does that mean we measure love and hatred by the same unit? Even the ice-cold indifference? Love, water. Hatred, steam. Indifference, ice. Eh?

Opposite of Love

2008-04-30T22:18:00.002+04:00

Oppositve of love is not hatred. No, not indifference. Opposite of love is utilitarian love.

Beingness

2008-03-09T15:55:00.002+04:00

"I think, therefore I am," said René Descartes (1596–1650). I don't think, therefore I am.

Every Blog

2008-03-09T15:50:00.003+04:00

Every dog had his day, but not today.
Today, every dog has his blog.

Love in the Time of HIV

2008-03-06T19:23:00.000+04:00

Handbook for NRIs

2008-02-16T18:07:00.001+04:00

Here is a useful handbook for NRIs. You can download it from here.

Because...

2008-01-08T15:35:00.001+04:00

...life is what happens to us while we are busy consuming some brands, here is the new alphabet.

Double-click on the image to get the bigger image. Thanks to Mr. Sanu Raju for the execution.

Business is...

2007-11-14T08:07:00.000+04:00

Business is credit management. Capital? What is that? You become a successful businessman only if you learn all about rolling on other people's money and labour. Monkeys and donkeys will always be there. Have their keys and you are a winner.

Art of Bribing

2007-11-14T08:00:00.001+04:00

Business is marketing, they say. And marketing is often art of bribing - art of bribing what, where, how and to whom. Most of the innnovations in business are also around them.

Desert or Dense Forest?

2007-11-13T10:41:00.000+04:00

Want to be raped and killed at 22 or die virgin at 83?

Lust

2007-11-13T08:42:00.001+04:00

Blindmen killed by rainbow.

It's a Crime

2007-11-13T08:26:00.000+04:00

Happiness is a crime.

From Horoscopes to Heroscopes

2007-11-04T17:36:00.000+04:00

We all are born with horoscopes, they say. Then why don't trying to replace that one vowel with another to make them Heroscopes?

On Second Thoughts

2007-11-04T17:20:00.000+04:00

Married life is a very low price we are paying to avoid the mental, physical and social consequences of having more than one mate.

Punishment & Crime

2007-11-01T08:16:00.000+04:00

Most of the time, crime precedes punishment. Naturally, the crime that follows will be unjust to the punishment. Another punishment follows. And the seesaw just can't stop.

Women are of Two Types

2007-10-22T13:47:00.001+04:00

There are two types of women - Miss Mystery and Mrs. Mystery. A Mr. has no mystery about him and there is no why.

Com-promise

2007-10-22T08:52:00.000+04:00

When you add commerce to promise, you get compromise.

On Marriage

2007-10-21T12:38:00.000+04:00

I never said men should not marry. They can marry anybody except female of the species.

Injustice Delayed!

2007-10-21T12:36:00.000+04:00

If justice delayed is justice denied, injustice delayed must be justice allowed.

Paranoiac Panoramic

2007-09-30T18:23:00.000+04:00

Life is paranoiac panoramic paranoiac panoramic paranoiac panoramic paranoiac panoramic paranoiac panoramic paranoiac panoramic paranoiac panoramic...

Opium of the People

2007-09-29T11:05:00.000+04:00

Religion is the opium of the people, wrote Karl Marx. Poor guy, he couldn't forsee the impact of television. Yes, television is the opium of the people.

Mad for Each Other

2007-09-27T07:55:00.000+04:00

Made for each other? Yet to go miles before you weep. How about dropping that 'e for ego' for a try?

Forgive Your Enemies. But...

2007-09-16T08:52:00.001+04:00

"Forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much" wrote Oscar Wilde. "Forgive your enemies. But never forget their names" added Kennedy. In this electronic age, you can still forgive your enemies. But get updated on their usernames and never forget them.

What a Joke!

2007-09-13T07:30:00.000+04:00

Number of lonely people and the intensity of their loneliness are directly proportional to population density.

My Details

2007-09-09T07:43:00.000+04:00

Money is my religion. Selfishness my caste. What is love?

Lonely Planet

2007-09-08T12:23:00.001+04:00

It's better to be a lonely planet than to be one of the moons.

A Woman's Heart

2007-09-06T14:18:00.000+04:00

A woman' heart is a pond of lotuses.

(It's all mud at the bottom)

Words

2007-09-05T07:35:00.000+04:00

Words are tips of the iceberg of mind floating in the Atlantic ocean of sorrow.

Welding Anniversary

2007-09-04T13:29:00.000+04:00

Men get encaged, and then marred to be the husbends of their bitter halves. Being so an year is your welding anniversary.

Answer

2007-09-03T14:01:00.001+04:00

Mad people must be acting mad, like we acting normalcy.

Human Hearts

2007-09-03T10:40:00.001+04:00

Human beings can be chicken-hearted, but never egg-hearted. You can break an egg only once!

Familiarity Breeds

2007-09-02T12:36:00.000+04:00

For some, familiarity breeds contempt and... children!

Carefully, again

2007-09-02T08:21:00.001+04:00

Live carefully because everything is becoming everybody's memory.

Relationships

2007-09-02T07:46:00.001+04:00

Relationship between two human beings are never like a bridge. Distance between the ends of a bridge are always same, both ways.

Man is Not an Island

2007-09-01T10:45:00.000+04:00

"Man is not an island", wrote John Donne. Then what is man? I know - man is a granule of sand.

Jesus Jam

2007-08-31T23:39:00.000+04:00

Man cannot live by bread alone.

Ram's Law No.2

2007-08-31T23:37:00.000+04:00

For every proverb, there is an equal and opposite proverb.

Ram's Law

2007-08-30T18:43:00.000+04:00

Of the 100% information on anything that exist, 73% you get are twisted, 7% are false and 6% are useless. You don't get the remaining 14%.

Carefully

2007-08-25T11:18:00.000+04:00

Live carefully. Beacause everything is becoming memory.

Life is...

2007-08-24T23:22:00.000+04:00

Life is what happens to us while we are busy consuming some brands.

Oh! Early Worm

2007-08-23T18:24:00.001+04:00

Early bird catches the worm.

Oh! Early worm, I am sorry for you.

When You are Doing Something

2007-08-23T16:31:00.000+04:00

When you are doing something, you are not doing all the other things.

Useless Details

2007-08-23T08:19:00.000+04:00

"God is in Details", wrote Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. So where is Devil? Lemme tell you? Devil is in Useless Details.