23 April 2010

From the T'roor Fan Club


From the T'roor Fan Club


After international adulation
He came back to serve the nation;
But the politics of desi ghee
For him didnt quite agree
And he feared imminent isolation.

So he started to tweet
Messages, short and sweet,
And followers he gained
He was their messiah ordained
And Twitter became his daily retreat.

Breezy with his words
The King of Clubs of nerds,
He was irreverent and witty,
Twitter-folks his community,
The parliament was for the birds.

By his tweety slip of tongue
Many a surprise he sprung,
Like that one about cattle-class
Which displeased not just his party brass,
Giving him a taste of political cattle-dung.

Living a protected, charmed life
He emerged alive from every strife,
His face ever aglow
He loved his daily show,
And relished his twitter butter knife.

But yes, this boy, Tharoor
A saab, Haan Jee huzoor,.
Had this one thingy-thing
He went ding-a-ling-a-ling,
For pretty things, to be sure

And so his tweets didn't bare all,
For instance there was this doll
Sunanda was her name
His newest-hottest flame
With whom he was having a ball.

It's rumored she runs a spa
For sheiks and starlets, oh yeah!
Sounds rather hoity toity
And somewhat naughty naughty
But it sure ain't anything too raw.

Her hair dyed like the Tricolor
She's a mover, baby, not a scholar
She oozes come hither looks
When she ain't cooking the books
She loves India, I'll bet you a dollar


She's a good gal who avoids felons
Tho' she looks like the Cabaret star Helen
You can see her at the Oberoi
And at the Burj in Dubai
Or tweet her @ItsLikeMelons


So in this salubrious duty free port
With his gal, he was about to disport
When she put her head on his seena
And asked the fee for her paseena
Sure, babe, he said to his Kashmiri comfort

While caught in this heady spell
Came the Kochi IPL,
And his private Pushkar Mela,
Became a public jhamela,
And heaven suddenly became hell.

The Knives were quickly out
There was hardly any doubt
Except in his mind
And in his faithful twitter-kind
That this bout would see his rout.

He fought hard, kill-or-die,
But found no real ally,
He got booed off from the floor,
His own folks pointed him the door,
And finally he had to eat humble pie.

But in this loss is surely a gain,
That with this political stain,
In the parliamentarians' zone
He's accepted as one of their own,
A crucial win in his career campaign.

Much remains to be seen;
He's no political has-been
He's no Keralite son of the soyil
To get stuck with Cock a nut Oyil
He'll soon be back in Delhi and in pastures green.

---- Lakshmi


An Excellent poem from poet extraordinaire



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22 April 2010

Gimme Red !


Inspired by Couchpapaya

I had to tweak my answers to get RED, hehehe !


You boast incredible willpower and are capable of overcoming obstacles that would normally leave others shaking in their boots. You have a penchant for colorful environments and often impress others with your energetic bursts of energy. Your interests in many areas of life often leave you scattered, but when you focus you can accomplish anything you put your mind to.





17 March 2010

What Katie did

“I believe as humans we are all very capable of enduring, perhaps something that can easily be forgotten if not required to expend much energy physically.” Katie Spotz




I read a news item this morning about a girl who crossed the Atlantic on a rowboat alone at the young age of 22. I was impressed by the feat and forgot about it till I ran into a web-article about Katie Spotz again later in the day. I hit the twitter and blog links about her journey.

Of course it’s a different journey from the ones Columbus and Megellan undertook centuries ago. Katie was connected to the rest of the world through a satellite. Her navigation was monitored via a GPS tracker. She could have been tracked by others via google earth as well. This offered up such exciting opportunities that it boggles your mind. She was able to post pictures, twitter and update her blog fairly regularly during her journey. I wish I had known about this earlier, I would have kept abreast of Katie’s progress by merely following her blog and twitter account.

However, all is not lost. The blog is such a lovely account of Katie’s progress through the ocean that I read it through at one sitting. She has a gentle style that makes little of the awful lot of endurance she required to row all day long, monitoring her intake of food (5000 calories per day), water, bathing, and coping with sores from sitting on one spot, coping with chafing clothes (she found it was better to go without to avoid that). Add to this the mental endurance required to be alone among such exacting elements. She chooses to give us almost breezy descriptions of her day, never neglecting to add some great pictures of herself and the sea creatures that decide to ride along her 19 foot boat.

This is a link to her first blog

Katie Spotz undertook this journey to bring some much needed funds for providing potable water to places where it is hard to come by. Lack of clean drinking water has an effect on the health of people as well.

Here is a post that highlights her mission

I liked this post as it highlighted the mental toughness required for rowing alone in an ocean

Her Daily Routine -

Here is the one that lists what her hardships were like.

Here is an online interview

I think often about how this world has no heros. Whenever time comes up for ‘Man of the year’ awards, we get to choose between some politicians, filmstars and flashy sportsmen. Why don’t we get to choose people like Katie who teach us what human endurance is capable of?

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