Monday, June 12, 2006

Geographies of memory

Does there live a girl, or a woman may be, called Pushkala who sings no sooner than you tell her to, as if you pressed the play button on a cassette player. On a lazy afternoon as she enters without a knock and her mellifluous voice swallows Papa in the next room. That timid old man locating his spectacles on the table as Tiki rolls up rotis for the night. At night when Feroz reminds of Kavi Pradeep and Debu exhibits himself, do you know that tall handsome boy drinking the last of the pegs.
Not far from all of them I re-write your lines;
They happen and I see them happening.

4 comments:

Amalendu said...

Now what to say....
those like me who were part of the history of this geography do not have words to express....
others...i don't know...

let Pushkal sing...let Tiki cook...let there be the graceful presence of Feroz..let Debooo’s noise be heard...let a hyperactive Tukun be there…doing nothing…let the lethargic me accompany him
na kaan tukun

Runa said...

the comment seems better that the post...

Siddharth Tripathy said...

Pushkala sings
Tiki cooks
Debu is
Tukun
Comrade

we could never think of such things not being

Amalendu said...

you are right tukun...
I was too much into memory...
Now I hallucinate..