It’s the time for the breaking news and the news breaking,
Break the news, but break not all rules and regulations,
O, you the media men,
Reporters, correspondents and journalists!
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The matter is over,
They have erred
And for this the court is there
But why to create nuisance unnecessarily
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Krishna, Krishna,
O Krishna,
Where are you playing the flute from
And the melody breaking it
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As he is an Oriya first and foremost
Then an Indian
So is he an imagist first
Then a litterateur,
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Art,
Modern art,
What is modern art?
Dots, circles,
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What is Indian English poetry?
Poetry if it is love for India and free discussion for Derozio, love dreams for Michael Madhusudan carried with the whiffs of an Englishman, romantic wisps and whiffs for Manmohan, yogic flashes and sadhna for Aurobindo together with the spirit of a rebel and a.cold logician having a flair for Latinized diction, the quest for identity and the theme of Indianness for Nissim, faded romanticism and mediocre flirts with it, physics and its light and darkness chapters together with the Big Bang theory for Jayanta, tragedies and tragic concepts for Daruwalla, man and woman in love in Khajuraho or Ajanta- Ellora figurines together with a study of Vatsyayana's Kamsuttra for Kamala and Shiv K.Kumar, dharma-artha-kama-moksha, a Rajneeshite shisya of the Rajneesh Ashrama, a modern girl desperate and distraught with materialism taking to the recourse of dharma-yoga, but the yogi there in the ashrama not a yogi, but a bhogi, a dhongi.
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“My love, how are you, how are you?
Are you fine?
Are you happy, my love? ”,
Said she slowly in a voice of her own.
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Modern Indian English poetry of the modern age people,
New faces and voices
Beginning to write, struggling to make a way,
Parodying, emulating, copying, trying to perfect
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I saw the girls coming to
And singing the songs of Tusu,
The small-small girls
With the statue of Goddess Tusu
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