Drop

Golden gates,

At sun down.

I fall.

Around the sun,

The flame licks,

Torching the heart

To a cinder dark brown.

Through clouds

Where I reach out,

For a silver line.

It scars my skin with naked sorrows.

Flights, flocks

The birds soaring.

I plead,

Carry me from here.

Down,

The drop ends?

Am I dreaming,

Or is it a nightmare?

Further below,

Society,

With its green and brown,

Awaits me with Devil's clutches.

A craned neck,

I look up,

At where it all began.

It did.

With a fall,

A drop.

Photos from an onsite IT professional

(Psst. I don't actually have the photos. But this is more or less how it goes. You can verify with the orkut album of someone you know. Psst over.)

Onsite - the nameless mecca that is an IT professional's haven. But what does he click when he's there?

Arbit photographs, like:

1) Ben (my new colleague), his girlfriend Heather and me

2) Statue of Liberty and I (shot in a low angle with caption that says, "Who's taller?")

3) Me in front of Niagara falls (caption: such a beautiful place for a country's border)

4) Me and my new car (Caption: my new ride)

5) Me in front of random building

6) Me in front of random roadside statue

7) Me sitting on a park bench

8) Me in front of New York traffic

9) Me with my Starbucks

And last but not the least,

10) Me playing in snow (Caption: It's snowing!)

Wow, genius. How did you figure that out? Why don't you check again? It might be coagulated calcium dispensed from heaven.

Here I am!

But why am I here?

Isn't that how most of life is? Small and immediate successes define these milestones. We do not know where we are going. But we just get to places.

So I have taken another turn. The direction, I have a vague idea. But will I get there? Noone knows. At least, not for now.

So well, I think I'll be gone now.

Where?

I guess, you know the answer.

Freedom To Trade: A Lesson from the Great Depression

Smile please

No, it's not the return of the smiling death.

How often do you see something on TV and smile? Really. Smile at the antics of whoever is on screen. Today I smiled. Quite cheerfully. And for the entirety of this video.

It's from an upcoming Hindi movie called '99' directed by Krishna DK and Raj Nidimoru. The video here features Kunal Khemu (with his best look ever, and thanks for shedding those tresses), a fattened Cyrus Broacha and Soha Ali Khan (really, no descriptors for her).

Enjoy the video. Hope it makes you smile.

Die you bastards!

But smile too...

I just realized...

... that A.R.Rahman is the first music director I have known by name.

And now I can name many.

Like Viju Shah for Aar Ya Paar.