Sunder and SonatiinAnhad ka BaajaUnbearableYou can choose Not to read this poem I could have chosen Not to write it18h ago18h ago
Sunder and SonatiinAnhad ka BaajaTime TravelTravelling a couple of hundred miles To a friend’s sixtieth birthday party Entailed time-travel Forty years into the pastOct 7Oct 7
Sunder and SonatiinAnhad ka BaajaThe janvar with two homesWhen we moved houses From Chembur to Colaba The do-sar-wala janvar Was heartbroken And head-separatedSep 25Sep 25
Sunder and SonatiinAnhad ka BaajaWeaponising TechTell me, honestly: When you got a call Yesterday On your cell phone Didn’t you pull it out Of your pocket Even before the first ring Place…Sep 19Sep 19
Sunder and SonatiinAnhad ka BaajaPlus ça changeFrom smallpox blankets To exploding pagers Technology The handmaiden of GenocideSep 18Sep 18
Sunder and SonatiinAnhad ka BaajaTrailblazerThis hotshot Israeli engineer This top-of-the-class This teacher’s pet Does he think that This operation he devised Will be his alone…Sep 18Sep 18
Sunder and SonatiinAnhad ka BaajaA taste of heavenOn those rare occasions When Appa came home early We, my sister and I Would walk down to The Gateway of India With him In the eveningSep 14Sep 14
Sunder and SonatiinAnhad ka BaajaWhistleblowersRunning down the slope To the road With a whistle Small and plastic To hail The raddiwala pick-up Before he zoomed past I was reminded of A…Sep 131Sep 131
Sunder and SonatiinAnhad ka Baaja“Deeply Disturbing”Isn’t it outrageous That the outrage At murder Depends on Skin colour And the colour Of the passport?Sep 7Sep 7
Sunder and SonatiinAnhad ka BaajaFog of WarOne says they died In air strikes The other retorts that They had bullet woundsSep 2Sep 2