Hashya, Vyangya And Vakrokti: A Study In A.K.Ramanujan Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

If to work for your Ph.D.
On A.K.Ramanujan,
Work on,
Hashya, vyangya and vakrokti
In his poetry,
On the element
Of laughter, taunt and oblique approach.

How satiric is he,
How taunting,
How oblique,
A Gopal Bhar, Birbal
Or Khana
Or an Ashtabvakra?

Implying and applying within
Wit, conceit.
Irony, humour,
Satire, doublespeak,
Taunt and jibe
And above all, the oblique approach,

But not like Ashtavakra in
Deformity
Neither one-eyed,
Nor lame-footed
Nor with a cleft palate,
Neither hunch-backed
Nor stammering
With the speech defect.

But an expatriate academician,
One of the diaspora dais
Teacher South Asian Dravidian languages
In America's Chicago,
A poet Tamilian
In an English garb
With deshi or videshi wife.