Anhad ka Baaja

The Chinese have it that When a blade of grass is plucked The earth moves Modern scientific minds Smile knowingly Speak of Newton’s Action and Reaction And say, Yes, yes it moves But by an

There used to be A newspaper vendor Sitting on the pavement On Colaba Causeway From whom I used to buy The Evening News of India For my father Making sure to finish Busybee’s Round and About While

If you thought that A field of rotting tomatoes Was the limit of the horror Think again Picture this: You hear that the lockdown has eased And work all evening till dark With your wife and kids

When a pregnancy comes to term There is a sigh  Of joyful relief At the baby’s first cry All Kashmir’s cries, however Fall on deaf ears Its state is one Pregnant with foreboding The powers that be

We are all familiar With two daughters of Science: Experiment and Statistics But today, On what sample can we use statistics? On whom can we experiment? So the neglected first daughter  Comes into

Misinformation Disinformation Now we need a new word Malinformation: Bad Information Malinformation spreads, it seems,  Faster than the virus Hydroxychloroquine works The BCG vaccine helps Bleach is