History Of The Universe in 200 Words

Quantum Fluctuation. Inflation. Expansion. Particle-Antiparticle Annihilation. Deuterium and Helium Production. Matter Domination. Recombination. Blackbody Radiation. Local Contraction. Large-Scale Structure Formation. Violent Relaxation. Virialization. Galaxy Formation. Turbulent Fragmentation. Contraction. Ionization. Massive Star Formation. Deuterium Ignition. Hydrogen Fusion. Hydrogen Depletion. Core Contraction. Envelope Expansion. Helium Fusion. Carbon, Oxygen, and Silicon Fusion. Iron Production. Implosion. Supernova Explosion. Metals [...]

Ghost Town

I wrote this sometime back while visiting my hometown in the height of summer and promptly forgot all about it.

Bad roads and the dust.
That’s all I could remember
Of this musty old town seeped with rust
I can use big words now -
Apathy and superstitious neglect
At least those were true before and firm
No more now
Cleared with last [...]

An Ordinary Man

He looked around on his deathbed
All his most formidable friends were there.
Wearing his heart with tears leaking like a seive
His father, vehement, nursed the family grief.
And armed with her knitting needles and shawl
His aunt, who even when they were small,
Had but to look in their innocent game
To make them guilty of some great wrong.
And his [...]

What I knew then …

Remember when you were a kid and used to imagine all sorts of scenarios about people around you. I mean I used to know what people were saying about me since way back. What I imagined the people around me were saying when I was -
Twelve
Conversation at Dinner with Mom and Dad’s friends
Loud [...]

Palindrome ?

Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver. I maim nine more hero-men in Saginaw, sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I — lo! — rack, cut a drowsy rat in Aswan. I gas nine more hero-men in Miami. Reviled, I (Nona) live on. I do, O God!

Who Said ?

Commies, Hippes, Liberals, WMDs, Iraq, Mushroom Clouds, 911, 911, 911, 911, 911, Iraq, Nukes, Russia, Muslims, Death, Destruction, Pot smokers, Iran, Iran, Iran, Britney spears, Shahrukh’s 6 pack, 911, 911, World war III, Emergency, Elections, Emergency, Elections, Google, Google, 123, copyright, DRM, open, open, open, Iran, Iran, Iran ….
I think I’m sick !

Brevity Anyone ??

“For sale:
baby shoes, never worn.”
This short story by Hemingway is said to be one of his best works, Its amazing what words can do, with either their very brevity or extreme loquaciousness. Each have their beauty. But here comes the fun part. Ran across a few the other day on Wired with the contributors comprising [...]

What is ?

When that crazy sadhu balls up
Read not the mystic but the hash
When the friend who thinks him sane
Read not the growing together but the vain
Cars and motorbikes and petrol hearses
Think not carriages, just tired horses
And the horses themselves
the preacherman’s game.
And remove those lights and gross mannequins
Pray and it invests it with divinity ??
What of the [...]

Riding Home

All I see are rain and traffic jams and mud,
The rush of people swarming and going on.
Perhaps they’ll reach somewhere someday
Before loosing all in the bargain.
Big God men have a tent erected there with
millons poured into the holy one’s idol and gait.
Then you hear the muezzins’ cry,
No doubt pious praises and telling of sacrifical glory
But [...]

At the Night

Let me sleep, let me be
Let me not feel your tender touches, let me
Not hear your whispered nothings
You and I are free if we have no lover
For love consumes time which is more dear to me
Now you are equal to me and at sea
So let me not feel the ache and irrational longing
For we had [...]