Shangteshwar Lake Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

From the Y-Junction on return
From Bumla to Tawang,
We in our Scorpio branched off
And travelled for one hour,
On hardy road, through good scenery,
To reach what is known as
Madhuri talav (lake) ,
Medium sized, with tree-stumps plenty,
And huge boulders off the steep
Fallen near the Bridge with green lattice.

Nature takes a back-seat
When Bollywood enters the scene
The original name of Shangteshwar
Is all but forgotten by tourists and guides.
Madhuri Dixit had come to shoot for film Koyla.
I believe Shah Rukh Khan
Had also come but he was a man,
And here there are more male tourists!
Even I have decided to see Koyla DVD
And say, like Sir Lancelot, ‘She has a beautiful face’.