Indus Valley Civilization- rethinking

‘The earth is the centre of the Universe.’

Galileo brought about evidences

To disprove this notion held by the learned.

Evidences must dislodge old theories.

The Indus Valley Civilization

Was at least eight thousand years old

And not five thousand years, as believed

On the basis of new evidences.

There was a pre-Harappa  Civilization

That must have existed in India  

Before the blossom  of civilizations

In Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Rig Veda, the most primitive Veda,

The Sacred text of Aryans in India,

Dates 1500 BC with their Sanskrit

Being Indo-European language.

The Hinduism is a Veda based sect.

Shiva and Shakhty , the indigenous gods,

Converted to Hinduism with their worshipers.

Aryan invasion theory was resisted.

Vedas and Epics depict two races,

Fair with a long nose, and dark with a flat nose.

Adivasis  like Mundas , dark with flat nose,

Are the sons of soil of the Indus Valley.

06.06.2016

Jokes have edges.

Quips are there, sexist, castist or racist.

Cartoons are there on popular figures.

Mimicry is there of well known leaders.

Satire is there, political, formal and personal.

Jesters are patronized in the court of king.

Jokers are welcome in a gathering.

Comedians are in the play for a laugh.

Fools speak authors’ voice in their works.

Jokes are born of the grain of sadism.

Freedom of expression is of no use

If there is no sanction of right to offend.

Jokes were mild that humiliated none.

Satire has a reformist agenda.

It can hold up a mirror to the flaws.

Satire is a teaching to the teacher.

There was no suit against any jokers.

Taking jokes in a lighter vein is gone.

Jokes give glee to jokers and listeners

And anger to the one who’s referred to.

So make fun of a mouse or a mongoose.

04.06.2016

Wrong signals

A smiling face is less reliable.

A soft spoken is less benevolent.

The glamorous are not promiscuous.

Yet people are wrongly responding.

04.06.2016

Just another…

It is just another brick in the wall.

It is just another step in the stairs.

It is just another coach in the train.

The king is just another man with us.

04.06.2016

Roles and realities

 An actress seen as Goddess Parvathi

To the Television watchers

Was seen in the beachwear by them,

In her blog to their dismay and contempt.

Why must she be shamed for no fault of her?

Roles and realities are quite different.

To identify one with the character one does

And disapprove one’s reality is bad.

04.06.016

The innocent and the wicked

Targeted by a hunter down below

And charged by an eagle high above,

A pair of doves, panic, perched on a bow,

With each ready to die for the other.

Stunk by a trodden cobra on his heal,

The hunter missed his balance and his aim,

The arrow went past the birds to the sky,

Where it hit the eagle hovering there.

The hunter was killed; so was the eagle.

The birds liable to die had been spared.

God saved the innocent and punished the wicked.

Are they wicked when they aimed for their food?

04.06.2016

Fate decides the random pick.

Between white and black there are many shades.

If the choice is white, between white and grey,

It’ll be grey if the choice is grey and black.

Random pick is the choice when both are same hues.

03.06.2016